P-29, r. 1 - Regulation respecting food

Section 7.3.1.2 Disposition versions

2022-09-01

7.3.1.2. Where there is a surplus of inedible meat that cannot, either within 48 hours after the death of an animal of a farm producer’s livestock or at the end of the refrigeration or deep freezing period provided for in the second paragraph of section 7.3.1, be disposed of in accordance with the means provided for in subparagraphs 1 to 4 of the first paragraph of that section, the farm producer may dispose of the inedible meat by any other means of elimination or reclamation of residual materials compliant with the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2) and the regulations.

Where, despite sections 7.4.3 and 7.4.4, there is a surplus of inedible meat that exceeds the daily capacity of the operator of a dismembering plant, the operator may disposed of the inedible meat by any other means of elimination or reclamation of residual materials compliant with the Environment Quality Act and the regulations. The operator may also use any of those means where the operator cannot dispose of waste, garbage and refuse in accordance with section 7.4.14.

The following persons may also use the other means of elimination or reclamation:

(1)  the operator of a dismembering plant who cannot dispose of inedible meat, garbage and refuse in accordance with the conditions set out in section 6.4.1.16;

(2)  the operator of a slaughterhouse, delicatessen plant, or cannery of meat governed by section 6.4.2.9, who cannot, within a reasonable period, dispose of inedible meat in accordance with that section;

(3)  a salvager who cannot, within a reasonable period, dispose of inedible meat that the salvager salvaged in accordance with section 7.3.3.

For the purposes of the first, second and third paragraphs, the disposal of inedible meat, waste, garbage and refuse must first be authorized by the Minister where the conditions set out in those paragraphs are met.

Except for a salvager and the operator of a dismembering plant, a person who collects or removes residual materials or delivers those materials to a site for the elimination or reclamation of residual materials compliant with the Environment Quality Act and the regulations and a person who operates the site are exempted, for the purposes of this section, from the requirement to hold the permits provided for in subparagraphs c and d of the first paragraph of section 9 of the Act. The persons are also exempted from the application of section 7.1.5, the sections of Division 7.2, sections 7.3.8 to 7.3.10 and the sections of Division 7.4.

O.C. 854-98, s. 12; O.C. 1187-2011, s. 11; O.C. 1216-2020, s. 1; I.N. 2020-12-10; O.C. 1463-2022, s. 5.

2020-11-19

7.3.1.2. Where, as the result of a public health situation, a volume of inedible meat must be eliminated that exceeds the capacity of the operators of incinerators and dismembering plants and the salvagers referred to in the first paragraph of section 7.3.1, a farm producer who, because of that situation, cannot use the disposal methods set out in subparagraphs 1 to 3 of the first paragraph of that section may, subject to the provisions of the fourth paragraph, within 48 hours of the death of an animal of the producer’s livestock, dispose of the inedible meat from the animal by sending it to an engineered landfill site governed by Division II of Chapter II of the Regulation respecting the landfilling and incineration of residual materials (chapter Q-2, r. 19) or delivering it to a person who removes waste for the sole purpose of sending it to such a site. This paragraph does not apply to inedible goat or sheep meat.

If the inedible meat is disposed of by burial in the producer’s agricultural operation in accordance with subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph of section 7.3.1, only the carcasses of animals that have died from natural causes or following an accident may be disposed of.

The holder of a permit to operate a slaughterhouse referred to in subparagraph a or a.1 of the first paragraph of section 9 of the Act, and a person exempted from holding a permit referred to in subparagraph a of the first paragraph of that section, may also use an elimination method provided for in the first paragraph.

The Minister authorizes the disposal of inedible meat in an engineered landfill site when the conditions set out in the first paragraph are met.

For the purposes of the provisions of the first paragraph, the operator of an engineered landfill site and a person who removes waste for the sole purpose of sending it to such a site are, respectively, exempted from holding the permit referred to in subparagraph c or subparagraph d of the first paragraph of section 9 of the Act. In addition, the requirement to install a sign set out in the first paragraph of section 7.1.5 and the requirement set out in the first paragraph of section 7.3.8 do not apply to the operator of a landfill site and to the truck bodies and trailers or containers used.

This section ceases to have effect 6 months after the day on which the public health emergency declared by Order in Council 177-2020 dated 13 March 2020 ends.

O.C. 854-98, s. 12; O.C. 1187-2011, s. 11; O.C. 1216-2020, s. 1; I.N. 2020-12-10.

2012-09-01

7.3.1.2. (Replaced).

O.C. 854-98, s. 12; O.C. 1187-2011, s. 11.