P-29, r. 1 - Regulation respecting food

Section 7.2.10 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

7.2.10. Dismembering plant. General preparation. Rooms: The dismembering plant operated under a “general preparation” category permit must include:

(a)  a room including:

i.  a receiving sector for inedible meat;

ii.  a preparation sector with separate areas for the selection, conditioning and colouring of the meat;

iii.  a shipping sector for packaged products; and

iv.  a storing sector for packagings;

(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)  where applicable, a waste cold storage room with a maximum temperature of 7ºC for keeping unused bones and viscera 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 for this purpose, inside the room provided for in subparagraph b;

(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 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;

(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 from it daily.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. P-29, r. 1, s. 7.2.10; O.C. 725-94, s. 50; O.C. 477-2010, ss. 1 and 13.