P-29, r. 1 - Regulation respecting food

Section 7.2.6 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

7.2.6. Dismembering plant. Animal food cannery. Rooms: The dismembering plant operated under an “animal food cannery” category permit must include:

(a)  a main room including:

i.  a receiving sector for inedible meat;

ii.  a manufacturing sector with separate areas for the preparation and conditioning preceding sealing, for the sealing, for retorts and for the packaging and labelling of canned products; and

iii.  an area for storing and shipping canned meat with a separate area for storing dry raw materials;

(b)  a refrigerated room at a temperature of between 0ºC and 4ºC and, where applicable, a freezing room with a maximum temperature of minus 18ºC for preserving frozen products;

(c)  a room or compartment for the storage of spices, ingredients and other additives or preservatives;

(d)  a waste cold storage room or compartment with a maximum temperature of 7ºC for keeping unused viscera and bones intended for a dismembering plant provided for in sections 7.2.4 or 7.2.5. This room must be equipped with a door opening on the outside of the plant;

(e)  sanitary rooms including a restroom with a drinking fountain, sinks, clothes lockers and lavatories for the use of the staff;

(f)  an installation for the purification of waste water in conformity with the regulations in force and, where applicable, a trap for organic fat, installed in the dirty sector or outside the dismembering plant;

(g)  a machine room or a separate sector with an area for the heating installation system, compressors and electric distribution panels and an area for the repair and mechanical maintenance of the equipment;

(h)  a compartment for storing cleaning, washing and sanitizing material;

(i)  (subparagraph revoked).

The waste room or compartment provided for in subparagraph d of the first paragraph does not have to be refrigerated, provided the waste is removed from it daily.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. P-29, r. 1, s. 7.2.6; O.C. 725-94, s. 50; O.C. 477-2010, ss. 1 and 11.