West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 61 - Agriculture › Title 61 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Series 61-40 - WV Exempted Dairy Farms and Milk and Milk Products Processing Rules › Section 61-40-23 - Milk and milk products processing facility

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
23.1. The milk and milk products processing
				facility shall meet the following construction and facility requirements:
23.1.1. A milk and milk products facility
				shall be conveniently located and properly constructed, lighted, and ventilated
				to prevent any contamination of milk or milk products, ingredients, containers,
				utensils, and equipment. Walls and ceilings shall be finished with smooth,
				washable, impervious materials, and shall be kept in good repair.
23.1.2. Products which would be likely to
				contaminate milk or milk products or otherwise create a health hazard shall not
				be handled in the milk products facility.
23.1.3. The milk and milk products facility
				shall be equipped to provide for the washing and sanitizing of equipment and
				utensils with an adequate supply of hot and cold water; All sanitary piping,
				fittings and connections which are exposed to milk and milk products or from
				which liquids may drip, drain or be drawn into milk and milk products shall
				consist of smooth, impervious, corrosion-resistant, non-toxic, easily cleanable
				material, which is approved for milk product-contact surfaces. All piping shall
				be in good repair. Pasteurized milk and milk products shall be conducted from
				one piece of equipment to another only through sanitary piping.
23.1.4. The liquid wastes shall be disposed
				of in a sanitary manner. All drains shall be trapped if connected to a sanitary
				sewer.
23.1.5. The milk products
				facility shall be constructed in a manner which will provide for adequate
				cleaning of ceilings, walls, and floors; all doors and windows shall be
				provided to prevent the access of insects and rodents. All openings shall have
				solid doors and adequate windows.
23.1.6 All rooms for processing milk and milk
				products shall be separate, and not direct entry into a stable, holding area,
				or other room used for domestic purposes.
23.1.7. Only equipment directly related to
				processing operations or the handling of containers, utensils and equipment is
				permitted in the pasteurizing, processing, cooling, condensing, drying,
				packaging, and bulk milk or milk product storage rooms.
23.1.8. All piping, floors, walls, ceilings,
				fans, shelves, tables and the non-product-contact surfaces of other facilities
				and equipment shall be clean.
23.1.9. No trash, solid waste or waste dry
				product shall be stored within the milk plant, except in covered containers.
				Waste containers at the packaging machine or bottle washer may be uncovered
				during the operation of such equipment.
23.1.10. The product-contact surfaces of all
				multi-use containers, utensils and equipment used in the transportation,
				processing, condensing, drying, packaging, handling, and storage of milk or
				milk products shall be effectively cleaned and shall be sanitized before each
				use.
23.1.11. After cleaning, all
				multi-use milk or milk product containers, utensils and equipment shall be
				transported and stored to assure complete drainage and shall be protected from
				contamination before use.
23.1.12.
				Receiving and dump vats shall be completely covered, except during washing and
				sanitizing, and when milk is being dumped. Where strainers are used, the cover
				for the vat opening shall be designed to cover the opening with the strainer in
				place.
23.1.13. All milk or milk
				products or ingredients that have been spilled, overflowed, mishandled or
				leaked shall be discarded, including all products drained from processing
				equipment and the end of a run, or otherwise not used in the original
				processing of milk or milk products.