P-29, r. 1 - Regulation respecting food

Section 7.2.9 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

7.2.9. Dismembering plant. Raw meat. Rooms: The dismembering plant operated under a “raw meat” category permit must include:

(a)  a treatment room including separate areas for receiving inedible meat, for skinning and evisceration and for dismembering, boning, cutting up and colouring the meat;

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

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

(d)  sanitary rooms including 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 the heating system, compressors, and electric distribution panels and an area for the repair and mechanical maintenance of the equipment;

(g)  a compartment for storing cleansing, washing and sanitizing material.

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

R.R.Q., 1981, c. P-29, r. 1, s. 7.2.9; O.C. 725-94, s. 50; O.C. 477-2010, s. 1.