[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR354.34]
[Page 388-390]
TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
CHAPTER III--FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE
PART 354_VOLUNTARY INSPECTION OF RABBITS AND EDIBLE PRODUCTS THEREOF
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Sec. 354.34 Application for inspection service in official plants; approval.
Any person desiring to process and pack products in a plant under
inspection service must receive approval of such plant and facilities as
an official plant prior to the rendition of such service. An application
for inspection service to be rendered in an official plant shall be
approved according to the following procedure:
(a) Initial survey. When application has been filed for inspection
service as aforesaid, the area supervisor, or his assistant, shall
examine the plant, premises, and facilities and shall specify any
additional facilities required for
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the service. Appeals with respect to any such specification may be made
to the national supervisor.
(b) Drawings and specifications to be furnished in advance of
construction or alterations.
(1) Four copies of drawings or blueprints showing the features
specified herein shall be submitted to the Administrator. The drawings
or blueprints shall be legible, made with sharp, clear lines, and
properly drawn to scale, and shall consist of floor plans and a plot
plan.
(2) The plot plan shall show such features as the limits of the
plant's premises, locations in outline of buildings on the premises, one
point of the compass, and roadways and railroads serving the plant.
(3) The floor plan shall show all space to be included in the
official plant. If rooms or compartments shown on the drawings or
blueprints are not to be included as part of the official plant, this
shall be clearly indicated thereon.
(4) The sheets of paper on which drawings or blueprints are made
shall not exceed a size 34 x 44. The drawings
other than of the plot plan shall be made to a scale of \1/8\
per foot, except that additional plans for some areas showing detail may
be drawn to a scale of \1/4\ per foot. The plot plan may be
drawn to a scale of not less than \1/32\ per foot. The
drawings shall indicate the scale used and shall also indicate the floor
shown (e.g., basement, first, or second).
(c) Features required to be shown on floor plan. The following
features shall be shown on the floor plan:
(1) The principal pieces of equipment drawn to scale in the proper
locations.
(2) The name of the firm and the address of the plant by street and
street number, or by other means properly identifying the location of
the plant.
(3) One point of the compass.
(4) The doors and openings for passageways, designating those which
are self-closing or permanently closed.
(5) All floor drain openings and gutter drains.
(6) Lavatories in toilet and processing rooms (lavatories which are
other than hand-operated shall be so designated on the drawings or
blueprints).
(7) All steam and hot and cold water outlets for cleanup purposes.
(8) Ice-making and storage facilities.
(9) The point at which live rabbits are hung on the conveyor line,
the point at which the ready-to-cook rabbits are removed, and any
intermediate transfer points.
(10) The routes of the edible and inedible products.
(11) The location of fresh air inlets, exhaust fans, and hoods.
(d) Specifications. Specifications covering the following items
shall accompany the drawings:
(1) Height of ceilings.
(2) Type of ceilings--open or closed.
(3) Finish of ceilings; for example--cement plaster, metal, marine
plywood, cement, asbestos board, etc.
(4) Finish of walls; for example--cement plaster, glazed tile, glaze
brick, glass blocks, etc.
(5) Screens--indicate whether all outside openings are screened or
provided with other suitable devices against entrance of flies or other
insects.
(6) Finish of floors--concrete, brick, mastic material, etc.
(7) Drainage--indicate the amount of slope of floors to the drains
in processing rooms, coolers, toilets, and refuse rooms, and give
description of trapping and venting of drainage lines and of floor drain
openings. Indicate size of drainage lines and whether house drainage
lines and toilet soil lines are separate to a point outside of
buildings.
(8) Heating--indicate type.
(9) Water supply--indicate whether public or private water supply,
or both, and specify in terms of gallons of water available per minute
for the processing needs of the plant. Also indicate whether or not a
nonpotable water supply is used for any purpose in the plant and, if so,
specify such uses.
(10) Hot water facilities--specify facilities such as boilers,
storage tanks, mixing valves, etc., and indicate the size and number of
boilers and storage tanks.
(11) Specify number of men and number of women who will use each
toilet room.
(12) Sewage disposal--indicate whether city sewer, cesspool,
sedimentation tank, etc.
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(13) Approximate rate of production--indicate hourly rate of
slaughter and evisceration for rabbits.
(e) Rooms and compartments which must be included in the official
plant. The official plant shall include employees' toilet and dressing
rooms, office space for the inspectors, storerooms for supplies, refuse
rooms, and rooms, compartments, or passageways where rabbits or any
ingredients to be used in the preparation of products under inspection
will be handled or kept. It also may include other rooms or compartments
located in the buildings comprising the official plant.
(f) Changes in drawings or blueprints. When changes are proposed in
areas for which drawings or blueprints have been previously approved,
one of the following types of revised drawings or blueprints shall be
submitted for review and consideration.
(1) A completely revised sheet or sheets showing proposed
alterations or additions, or
(2) Approved pasters of the proposed changes which may be affixed to
the affected areas on the previously approved drawings or blueprints in
a manner not obscuring essential data. Paster drawings and blueprints
shall be prepared to the same scale and presented on a background
similar to that of the originally approved drawing or blueprint.
(g) Final survey and plant approval. Prior to the inauguration of
the inspection service, a final survey of the plant and premises shall
be made by the area supervisor or his assistant to determine if the
plant is constructed and facilities are installed in accordance with the
approved drawings and the regulations in this part. The plant may be
approved by the Administrator only when these requirements have been
met, except that conditional approval for a specified limited time may
be granted only under emergency conditions of restricted availability of
facilities and construction materials, provided practices suitable to
the Administrator are employed to effect adequate sanitary conditions in
the plant.
(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number
0583-0036)
[41 FR 23702, June 11, 1976, as amended at 47 FR 746, Jan. 7, 1982]