P-29, r. 1 - Regulation respecting food

Section 7.2.8 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

7.2.8. Dismembering plant. Boning. Rooms: The dismembering plant operated under a “boning” category permit must include:

(a)  a room including:

i.  a receiving sector for inedible meat;

ii.  a treatment sector with separate areas for skinning and eviscerating and for cutting up, boning and colouring the meat; and

iii.  a sector for storing packagings and for shipping packaged products;

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

(c)  a waste room or compartment refrigerated at a maximum temperature of 7ºC for preserving unused skins, viscera and bones intended for a dismembering plant provided for in sections 7.2.4 or 7.2.5. This room or compartment may be replaced by a separate area reserved for these purposes, inside the room provided for in subparagraph b. The part of this area reserved for skins must be equipped with a 1 m wall;

(d)  sanitary rooms equipped with sinks and lavatories for the use of the staff;

(e)  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;

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

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

(h)  (subparagraph revoked).

The waste room or compartment provided for in subparagraph c of the first paragraph does not have to be refrigerated, provided the waste is removed daily and the skins are not kept therein.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. P-29, r. 1, s. 7.2.8; O.C. 725-94, s. 50; O.C. 477-2010, ss. 1 et 12.