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Director of Division.

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Inspector.

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Person.

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Butter.

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Process or renovated butter.

171.9 Process or renovated butter act. 171.10 Process or renovated butter factory. MAINTENANCE OF INSPECTION AND ACCESS TO PREMISES

171.11 Maintenance of sanitary inspections of premises and products. 171.12 Access to factory premises, etc., for inspection purposes.

SANITARY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER FACTORIES

171.13 Factories, storehouses, etc., to be kept sanitary and separate. 171.14 Lighting, screening, ventilating, and draining.

171.15 Care of floors, ceilings, walls, partitions, etc.

171.16 Equipment.

171.17 Sanitary pumps, pipes, and fittings

required.

171.18 Cleanliness of employees and of

clothing worn.

171.19 Communicable diseases of employees. 171.20 Lavatories, toilets, and dressing rooms; location and equipment. 171.21 Freedom from objectionable odors and substances.

INSPECTION STANDARDS FOR PROCESS OF RENC VATED BUTTER, AND FOR INGREDIENTS İY TENDED FOR USE IN ITS MANUFACTURE

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171.29 Process or renovated butter, and prospective ingredients therect found to be putrid and decom posed, or to be rancid, etc. 171.30 Process or renovated butter, and prospective ingredients thereof found to contain any avian am including immature

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stages or parts thereof, or excrement therefrom; destruction o denaturation required.

171.31 Process or renovated butter, and prospective ingredients thereof found to contain any insect, or other animal, not referred to in § 171.30 including immature stages or parts thereof, or excre ment therefrom; extent of destruction or denaturation required. 171.32 Prospective ingredients found to contain any visible mold, etc.; extent of destruction or denaturation required.

171.33 Identification of process or renovated butter, and of ingredients intended for use in its manufacture, which have passed inspection. 171.84 Destruction or denaturation of condemned process or renovated but ter, and of condemned prospective ingredients.

171.85 Storage and safekeeping of any lot of process or renovated butter, and of any lot of ingredients intended for use in its manufacture, pending further inspection of such lot. Reinspections. Ingredients must be inspected and passed prior to use in manufac turing.

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SANITARY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS

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RENOVATED BUTTER, AND FOR INGREDIENTS INTENDED FOR USE IN ITS MANUFACTURE 171.22 Requirements for containers of ingredients.

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Cartons, wrappers, and other containers.

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Net weight requirements; pictorial

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misrepresentations prohibited. Surface impressions.

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Marks, etc., requiring approval. Evidence of approval.

171.23 Pure, clean water and ice to be used. 171.24 Pure, clean air to be used; approved equipment for purifying air required. 171.25 Pasteurization of mixtures and emulsions; approved recording dairy thermometers required. 171.26 Butter must be melted, clarified, etc., at factory under supervision of inspector.

171.27 Process or renovated butter and ingredients must be kept, stored, and handled in a sanitary manner. All containers must be kept and stored in a sanitary manner.

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The food product usually known as butter which is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter.

§ 171.8 Process or renovated butter.

Butter which has been subjected to any process by which it is melted, clarifiled, or refined, and made to resemble butter as defined in § 171.7, excepting "adulterated butter" as defined in 26 U.S.C. 2320 (b).

§ 171.9 Process or renovated butter act.

The act of Congress approved June 24, 1946, entitled "An act to authorize the condemnation of materials which are intended for use in process or renovated butter and which are unfit for human consumption, and for other purposes" (60 Stat. 300; Pub. Law 427, 79th Cong.). § 171.10 Process or renovated butter factory.

One or more plants, storehouses, and other premises where process or renovated butter is manufactured (either in whole or in part), packaged, stored, or otherwise handled, and all premises where ingredients intended for use therein are stored, which are operated under the same management and so long as they are considered to be on the same bonded premises by, and are covered under the same bond in that connection to, the Internal Revenue Service, United States Treasury Department: Provided, That, if any such manufacturing operation is conducted as aforesaid in part at a plant at one location and in part at a plant at another location, all ingredients handled, including (but not limited to) butter oil, shall be used exclusively by that bonded manufacturer at his factory in the manufacture of process or renovated butter.

MAINTENANCE OF INSPECTION AND ACCESS TO PREMISES

§ 171.11 Maintenance of sanitary inspections of premises and products. Inspection will be maintained at each process or renovated butter factory and the premises connected therewith during all periods of its operation. The factory management shall give the inspector reasonable advance notice of any change in its usual operating hours. § 171.12

Access to factory premises, etc., for inspection purposes. The inspector shall have full and free access at all times to every part of any process or renovated butter factory, and to all other premises and grounds used in connection therewith.

SANITARY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER FACTORIES

§ 171.13 Factories, storehouses, etc., to be kept sanitary and separate.

All factories, storehouses, and other premises where process or renovated butter is manufactured, packaged, stored, or otherwise handled, and all premises where ingredients intended for use therein are stored, shall be used exclusively for such purposes, shall be separated by solid walls or partitions from any premises used for other purposes, and shall be maintained in a sanitary condition: Provided, however, That butter oil may be stored under seal in commercial cold storage warehouses.

§ 171.14 Lighting, screening, ventilating, and draining.

All factories, storehouses, and other premises where process or renovated butter is manufactured, packaged, stored, or otherwise handled, and all premises where ingredients intended for 'use therein are stored, shall be suitably lighted, screened, and ventilated. All such premises shall also be provided with adequate drains, which shall be properly trapped and sewer connected. Rooms shall be kept reasonably free from steam and other vapors.

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ing, but not limited to, the floors, ceilings, walls, pillars, partitions, platforms, and stairways of such premises, shall be kept clean, and shall be scraped, washed, painted, or otherwise treated as required by the inspector. When any part of the premises, or any equipment, becomes so old or in such condition that it cannot readily be kept clean and sanitary, it shall be replaced. Walks, platforms, and other approaches to all such premises shall be kept clean.

§ 171.16 Equipment.

All melting tanks, cans, vats, blowing tanks, and settling tanks and equipment used in preparing, cutting, chopping, and otherwise handling the ingredients used in the manufacture of process or renovated butter, shall be made of a noncorrosive metal, or shall be suitably nickeled tinned, or coated with other noncorrosive metal. All such equipment and all churns, butter workers, trucks, trays, and other receptacles, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, and all other utensils, machinery, and equipment used in the packaging, storing, or other handling of process or renovated butter, shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. § 171.17 Sanitary pumps, pipes, and fittings required.

All pumps, pipes, and fittings used for conveying or conducting milk, skim milk, cream, mixtures containing milk or cream, or butter oil shall be of the so-called sanitary types. Specifically: (a) The pumps shall be so constructed that all parts with which milk, skim milk, cream, mixtures containing milk or cream, or butter oil, come into contact shall be made of a non-corrosive metal, or shall be suitably nickeled, tinned, or coated with other non-corrosive metal, and all such parts shall be readily accessible for cleaning; (b) all pipes shall have smooth outer and inner surfaces coated with nickel, tin, or other non-corrosive metal; and (c) all fittings shall have smooth outer and inner surfaces coated with nickel, tin, or other non-corrosive metal, and shall be of such design that there are no pockets or recesses on the inside. All pumps, pipes, and fittings shall be kept in a sanitary condition, and shall, after the completion of each daily operation, be disassembled and thoroughly washed and sterilized before being reassembled and used again.

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All employees or other persons who ndle process or renovated butter, or y ingredient entering into its manucture, shall be required to keep themlves clean, particularly their hands, nd signs to that effect shall be posted

conspicuous places in the manucturing room and elsewhere on the remises as conditions require. Aprons, nocks, and other outer clothing worn

employees or other persons who hane, or in any way come in contact with rocess or renovated butter, or with any ngredient entering into its manufacture, hall be of materials that may be made anitary by washing, and only clean garents shall be worn. Boots and shoes hall be kept reasonably clean.

171.19 Communicable diseases of employees.

No person affected with any infecious, contagious, or other communicaole disease, or who is a carrier thereof, shall be employed in any factory where process or renovated butter is manufactured, packaged, stored, or otherwise handled, and any employee suspected of being so affected shall be reported by the inspector to the factory management and to the Director of Division.

§ 171.20 Lavatories, toilets, and dressing rooms; location and equipment. All lavatories, toilets, and dressing rooms shall be separate and distinct from the rooms in which process or renovated butter is manufactured, packaged, stored, or otherwise handled, as well as from rooms in which ingredients intended for use in the manufacture of process or renovated butter are stored; and where any such lavatory, toilet, or dressing room opens into a room used for any of the aforesaid purposes it shall be provided with automatically closing doors. Such lavatories, toilets, and dressing rooms shall also be conveniently located, sufficient in number (including separate facilities for women where both sexes are employed), adequate in size, and fitted with appropriate accommodations, including toilet paper, individual paper towels, soap, and running hot and cold water, and shall be properly lighted, suitably ventilated, and kept clean and sanitary.

§ 171.21 Freedom from objectionable odors and substances.

All premises in which process or renovated butter is manufactured, packaged, stored, or otherwise handled, and all premises in which ingredients intended for use in the manufacture thereof are stored, shall be kept free from objectionable odors coming from poultry rooms, egg rooms, drains, sewers, or other source. Every practicable precaution, including the use of appropriate sprays, traps, etc., shall be taken to exclude all organic or inorganic foreign substances, particularly flies, rats, mice, and other vermin, from such premises.

SANITARY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER, AND FOR INGREDIENTS INTENDED FOR USE IN ITS MANUFACTURE

§ 171.22 Requirements for containers of

ingredients.

In order to safeguard the purity and fitness of butter, butter oil, milk, and other ingredients for use in the manufacture of process or renovated butter, no manufacturer shall accept delivery of butter unless, at the time of such receipt, it is packed in a container which is constructed of: (a) Non-corrosive metal; (b) a corrosive metal which has been coated with some non-corrosive metal or lacquer; (c) wood which is tightly fitted together, parchment lined, and tightly headed; or (d) viscose or plastic. Such containers shall be equipped with tightly fitted covers or a closing device, and shall be kept covered or closed at all times. Containers constructed of materials mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of this section shall have smooth inner surfaces without pockets or recesses. Every container of butter shall be cleaned and dried thoroughly before it is used again. Butter received in a process or renovated butter factory in a container which does not meet the requirements of this section shall be denatured or destroyed in accordance with the provisions of § 371.34, as shall also butter received in containers which are deemed to be unfit for use as such containers because of the presence of rust, because they had not been cleaned properly, or had been improperly used. Milk, nonfat dry milk solids, and other ingredients, except butter, shall be deemed to be fit for use in the manufacture of process butter if the containers

thereof are so designed as to afford proper protection of the contents thereof, provided such ingredients are otherwise eligible for such use.

§ 171.23 Pure, clean water and ice to be used.

Only pure, clean water and ice shall be used in the manufacture of process or renovated butter. When there is any doubt on the part of the inspector regarding the purity of the ice or water supply, he shall report the facts to the factory management and to the Director of Division.

§ 171.24 Pure, clean air to be used; approved equipment for purifying air required.

Air used in aerating butter oil in connection with the manufacture of process or renovated butter shall be pure and clean and free from contamination of any kind.

§ 171.25 Pasteurization of mixtures and emulsions; approved recording dairy thermometers required.

Every mixture or emulsion made from milk, skim milk, or cream (either in liquid or powdered form) and butter oil shall be properly pasteurized before it is used in the manufacture of process or renovated butter. A recording dairy thermometer shall be provided and used to facilitate determinations of proper pasteurization.

§ 171.26 Butter must be melted, clarified, etc., at factory under supervision of inspector.

No butter shall be used in the manufacture of process or renovated butter unless the melting, clarifying, refining, and other processing of it has been done at a process or renovated butter factory under the supervision of an inspector: Provided, That butter melted by the original farmer-producer thereof and placed and stored by him in a container meeting the specifications prescribed in § 171.22 which is sold to a process or renovated butter manufacturer (either directly or through a designated representative of such manufacturer) may be used by such manufacturer in the manufacture of process or renovated butter, if it is otherwise eligible for such use: And provided further, That butter oil which is produced at one plant of a process or renovated butter factory may be transported to and

used in the manufacture of process or renovated butter at another plant of the same factory if (a) said butter oil is transported between the two plants under seal, and (b) prior to the production of such butter oil all ingredients used in such production were inspected and passed pursuant to the requirements of this part.

§ 171.27 Process or renovated butter and ingredients must be kept, stored, and handled in a sanitary manner. All milk, skim milk, or cream (in either liquid or powdered form), and all butter, butter oil, and other ingredients intended to be used in the manufacture of process or renovated butter, as well as all process or renovated butter, shall be kept, stored and stored in a sanitary manner.

§ 171.28 All containers must be kept and stored in a sanitary manner.

All cartons, packages, tubs, cans, tins, wrappers, liners, or other containers intended for use in the packaging of process or renovated butter shall be kept and stored in a sanitary manner. INSPECTION STANDARDS FOR PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER, AND FOR INGREDIENTS INTENDED FOR USE IN ITS MANUFACTURE

8 171.29 Process or renovated butter, and prospective ingredients thereof, found to be putrid and decomposed, or to be rancid, etc.

Any butter, butter oil, milk, or other ingredient intended for use in the manufacture of process or renovated butter which, upon inspection, is found to be putrid or decomposed shall be deemed to be unfit for such use. Any butter, butter oil, milk, or other ingredient intended for use in the manufacture of process or renovated butter which, upon inspection, is found to be rancid, cheesy, bleached, oxidized, or otherwise deteriorated to an extent which cannot be removed by any generally recognized processing method shall also be deemed to be unfit for such use. The inspector shall mark the container "U. S. Inspected and Condemned," and all of the contents of such container shall be denatured or destroyed, by or under the supervision of an inspector, in accordance with the provisions of § 171.34. The provisions of this section shall also apply to any churning or other lot of process or renovated butter.

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