HomeMy Public PortalAboutORD05179 approved, and the Mayor of this City Is' hereby authorized and
directed to execute and deliver all proper and sufficient writings , or
instruments , for, on behalf or in the namo of the City t o fully and
e®mplet&ly establish their legal right in connection with the
above vacation of said portion of said street.
SECTIov 2. All ordinances or harts of ordinances contrary to,
in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of t is ordinance
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. This ordinal ce shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and approval.
Passed July 11, 1949 Approved July 13, 1949
Lawrence Lubkewitte Lawrence LLtekwittF
President f the Council Mayor
Attest:
tenry W. Ells
T'—amity Clerlk
ORDINANCE # 5179
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING "MILK" AND CERTAIN "MILK PRODUCTS", "MILK
PRODUCER", "PASTEERIZATION", ETC. , PROHI:3ITI14G THE SALE OF .ADULTERATED
AND MISBRANDED MILK PRODUCTS, REGULATING THE InSPECTION OF DAIRY
FARMS AND MILK PLANTS, THE EXAMINATION, GRADIivG, LABELING, PLACARDIivG,
PASTEURIZATION, REGRADING, DISTRIBUTION, AND SALE OF MILK AND MILK
PRODUCTS, PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLISHING OF MILK GRADES, THE CONS
STRUCTION OF FUTURE DAIRIES A14D MILK PLANTS, THE ENFORCE14ENT OF THIS
ORDINANCE, AND THE FIXII:G OF PENALTIES.
BE IT ORDAIvED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI , AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Definitions. she following definitions shall
apply in the interpretation and the enforcement of this ordinance:
A. Milk. Milk is hereby defined to be the lacteal secretion
obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, ex-
cluding that obtained within 15 days before and 5 days after claving,
or such longer period as may be necessary to render the milk pract-
ically colostrum free; which contains not less than 8 per cent of
milk solids not fat, and not leas than 3T per cent of milk fat.
B. Milk Fat of Butterfat. Milk fat or biitterfatris the fat
of milk.
C. Cream and hour Cream. Cream is aportion of milk which
contains riot less Yhan 18 per cent milk fat. Sour cream is cream
the acidity of which is more than 0.20 per cent, expressed as
lactic acid.
D. Skimmed Milk. Skimmed milk is milk from which a suf-
ficient propion of milk fat has been removed to reduce its milk fat
percentage to less than 34 per cent.
E. Mil'c or Skimmed Yilk Beverage. A milk beverage or skimmed
milk beverage is a food ocmpound or confection consisting of milk
or skimmed milk as the case may be, to which has been added a
sirup or flavor consisting of wholesome ingredients.
F. Buttermilk. Buttermilk is aproduct resulting from the
churning of milk or cream or from the souring or treatment by a
lactic acid or other culture of milk, skimmed, reconstituted
skimmed milk, evaproated or condensed milk or skimmed milk, or
milk or skimmed milk powder. It contains not less than 8 per cent
of milk solids riot fat.
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G. Vitamin D. Milk. Vitamin D 111ilk is milk the vitamin D
content oTwhich has been increased by a method and in the amount
approved by the Milk Inspector.
H. Reconstituted or Recombined Milk and Cream. Reconstituted
,or recombined milrc is a product resulting from the recombining of
milk constituents with water, and which complies with the standards
for milk fat and solids not fat of milk as defined herein. Re-
constituted or recombined cream is a product resulting from the
combination of dried cream, butter, or butterfat with cream, milk,
skimmed milk, or water.
I. Goat jqlk. Goat milk is the lacteal secretion, free
from colostrum, obtained by a complete milking of healthy goats,
and shall comply with all the requirements of this ordinm ce. he
word "cows" shall be interpreted to include goats.
J. Homogen ized Milk. Homogenized milk is milk which has been
treated in such manner as to insure break-up of the fat globules
to such an extent that after 48 hours storage no visible cream
separation occurs on the milk and the fat percentage of the top 100cc.
of milk in a quart bottle., or of proportionate bolumes is containers
of other sizes, does not differ by more than 10 per cent of iteself
from the fat percentage of the remaining milk as determined after
thorough mixing.
K Milk Products. Milk products shall be taken to mean and
include eream, sour cream, homogenized milk, goat milk, vitamin D
milk, buttermil4, skimmed milk., reconstituted. or recombined milk and
cream, milk beverages, skimmed milk beverages, and any other product
made by the addition of any substen ce of milk or any of these prodtcts
and used for similar pruposes and designated as amilk product by the
Milk Inspector.
L Patteurization. The term "pasteurization". "pasteurized",
and similar terms shall be taken to refer to the proceps of heating
every particle of milk or milk products to at least 1431-T. , and
hol ng at such temperature for at least 30 minutes, or to at least
160 4. , and holding at such temperature for at least 15 s6cohds, in
approved and properly operated equipment; provided that nothing con-
tatLned in this definition shall be construed as. disbarring any other
process which has been demonstrated to be equally efficient and is
approved by the State health authority.
c M. Adulterated Milk and Milk Products. ''any milk or mild
product which contains any unwholesome substance, or which, if defined
in this ordinance, does not conform with its definition, or which
carried a grade label unless such grade label has been awarded by the
Milk Inspector and not revoked, shall be deemed adulterated and mis-
branded.
N. Milk Producer. A milk producer is any person who wons
or controls one or more cows a part or all of the milk or milk
products from which is sold or offered for sale.
0. Milk bistributor. A milk distributor is any person who
offers for sale ,or sells to another any milk or milk products for
human consumption as such.
P. Dairy or Dairy Farm. A dairy or dairy farm - is any place
or premises where one or more cows are kept, a part of all of the
milk aDr milk products from which is sold or offered for sale.
Q. Mjlk Punt. A milk plant is any place or premises or
establishibent where milk dr milk products are collected, handled,
processed, stored, bottled, pasteurized, or prepared for distribution,
R. Milk Inspector. 'The term 11M A.lk Inspector" shall mean
the health authority of the "ity of Jefferson, or its authorized
representative.
S. Average Bacterial Plate gount,_Airect Microscopic Qiunt,
Reduction Time. an CooliM Temperature.
Avorage bacterial plate count and average direct microscopic count
shall be taken to mean the logarithmic average, and average reduction
time and average cooling temperature shall be taken to mean the
arithmetic average, of the respective results of the last four
consecutive samples, taken upon separate days, Irrespective of the
date of grading or regrading.
T. Grading Period. 'he grading period shall be such period of
time as the bilk Il�spector may designate within which grades shall
,be determined for all milk and milk products, provided that the
grading periods daall in no case exceed 6 months.
U. Person. The word "person" as used in this ordinance shall
mean "person, firm, corporation or association".
V. And/or. "here the term "and/or" is used "and" shall apply
where possib e, otherwise "or" shall apply .
' Section 2. The Sale of Adulterated Misbraxided or
UnEraded Milk or Milk Products Prohibited. No person whall within
the City of Jefferson or its police jurisdiction, produce, sell,
offer, pr expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell,
any milk product which is adulterated, misbranded, or ungraded.
It shall be unlawful for any person, elsewhere than ini provate home
to have in possession any adulterated, misbranded., or ungraded milk.
or milk product.
Section 3. Permits. It shall be unlawful for any person to
bring into or receive into the City of Jefferson, or its police
jurisdiction, for' sale, or to sell, or offer for sale therein, or to
have in storage where milk or milk products are sold or served-, any
milk or milk product defined in this ordnance who does not posses
a permit from the Milk Inspector of the ity of Jefferson.
Only a person who complies with the requirements of thie
drdinance shall be entitled to receive and retain such a permit.
Suchypermit may be suspended by the Iv,ilk Inspector, or
revoked after an opportunity for a hearing by the Milk Inspector,
upon the violation by the holder of any of the terms of this
ordinance.
Section 4. Labelina and Placardin . All bottles, cans,
packages and other containers enclosing milk oaf any milk product
defined in thbs ordinance shall be plainly labeled or marked with
(1 ) the name of the contents as given in the definitions of this
ordinance; (2) the grade of the contents; (3) the word 'pasteurized it
onlu if the contents halre been pasteurized; (4) the word "raw" only
if the contents are rww; (5) the phrase "for pasteurzatidn" if the n
contents are to be pasteurized ; (6) the name of the producer if the
contents are raw, the name of the plant at which the contents were
pateurized, if the contents are pasteurized; and (7) in the case
of vitamin D milk, the designation "Vitamin D. Milk" and the source
of the vitamin D. The label or mark shall be in letters of a size,
kind, and color approved by the Milk Inspector and shall contain no mark
or words which are misleading.
Every restaurant, cafe, soda fountain, or other establishment
serving milk or milk products shall display at all times, in a place
designated by the Milk Irspctvv, a notice approved by the Milk
Inspcetor, stating the lowest grade of milk and/off n,i-lk products
served.
Section 5. Inspection of Dairy Farms add Milk Plants for
the purpose of Gra in or regrading. At least once during each
grading period the Milk Inspector shall inspect all dairy farms and
all milk plants ivhose ,milk or milk products are intended for conU-
sumption within the pity of Jefferson, or its police jurisdiction.
In case the milk Inspector discovers the violation of any item of
snaitation, he shall make a second inspection after a. lapse of such
time as he deems necessary for the defect to be rerrO.died, but not
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before the lapse of t,jree days, and the second Inspection shall be
used in determining the grade of milk and/or milk products. Any
violation of the same item of this ordinance on two consecutive
inspections shall call for immediate regrading.
One copy of the inspection report shall be posted by the Milk Inspector
in a conspicuous place upon an inside wall of one of the dairy farm or
milk plant buildings, and said inspectivn report shall not be defaced
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or removed by any person except the Yilk Inspector. Another copy of
inspection report shall be filed with the records of the Milk inspector.
Section 6. The examination of Milk- and Milk Products.
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from each dairy farm and each milk plant shall be taken on separate
days and examined by the Inspector as often as he deems necessary.
Samples of milk and milk products from stores cafes.. soda fountainss
restaurants, and other places where milk or milk produbts are sold
shall be examined as often as the Milk Inspector may require.
Bacterial plate counts and direct microscopic counts shall be made
in conf oitiity with the latest standard methods recommended by the
American Public Health Association, Examinations may include such other
chemical and physical determinations as the Milk Inspector may deem nec-
essary for the detection of adulteration, these examinations to be
made in accordance with the latesr standard methods of the American
Public Health Association and the Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists. Samples may be taken by the Milk Inspector at any time
prior to the final delivery of the milk or milk products. All pro-
prietors of stores, cafes, restaurants, soda fountains, and other
similar places shall furnish the Milk Inspector, upon his request,
with the names of all distributors from whom thier milk and milk
products ar2 obtained. Vio-assays of the Vitamin D content of
vitamin D M lk shall be made when required by the M-Llk. Inspector in a
laboratory approved by him for such examinations.
Whenever the average bacterial count, the average reduction
time, or the average cooling temperature falls beyond the limit for
the grade then held, the Milk Inspector shall send written notice
thereof to the person concerned, and shall take an additional sample,, but
not before the lapse of 3 days for determining a new average in
accordance with Section l(S). liolation of the grade requirement by the
new average or by any subsequent average during the remainder of the
current grading )eriod shall call for immediate degrading of suspen-
sion of the permit, unless the last individual result is within the
grade limit.
Section 7. The grading of Milk and Milk Products. At least
once every 6 months the M lk Inspector shall announce the grades
of all milk and milk products delivered by all producers or dis-
tributors and ultimately consumed in the ity of Jefferson, or its
police jurisdiction. Said grades shall be- based upon the following
standards, the grading of milk products being identicql with the
grading of milk except that the bacterial standards shall be doubled
in the case of cream, and omitted in the case of sour cream and butte
milk. Vitamin D Milk shall be only of grade A or grade B pasteurized
certified, or grade A raw quality.
Certified Milk-Raw. Certified milk-raw is raw milk which
conforms with the requirements of the American Association of
Medical Milk Commissions in force at the time of production and is
produced under the supervision of a medical milk commission and of
the State Board of Health or of the City or ounty Health Officer of
Jefferson City.
Grade A Raw Milk. Grade A raw milk is raw milk, the average
Bacterial plate count of which as determined under Section l (S) and
6 of this ordinance does not exceed 50,000 per cubic centimeter, or
the average direct microscopic count of which does not exceed
501,000 per cubic centimeter if chimps are counted or 200.000 per
cubic centimeter if individual organisms are counted, or the average
reduction time of which Is not less than B hours: Provided, That if
it is to be parteurized the corresponding' linits shall be 200,000 per
cubic centimeter, 200,000 Per cubic centimeter, 800,000 per cubic
centimeter, and 6 hours, respectively; and which is produced upon dairy f
farms opnforming with all of the following items of sanitation.
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Item lr Cows Tuberculosis and Other Diseases. Except as
provides-he reina era tuberculin test of all herds and additions
thereto shall be made before any milk theref orm is sold, and at
least once every 12 months therefater, by a licensed veterinarian
approved by the State rlea;th Department. Said tests shall be made
and reactors disposed of in accordance with the requirements approved
by the United States Department of Agriculture, "ureau of Animal
fndustry, for tuberculosis free accredited herds. A certificate signed
by the veterinarian or attested by the Milk Inspector and filed with
the W•`lk Inspector shall be evidence of the above test: Provided;
Taht in modified tuberculosis free accredited counties in which the
modified accredited area plan is applied to the dairy herds the
modified tuberculosis free accredited area system approved by the
United States Bureau of Animal Industry shall be accepted in lieu of
annual testing.
After the adoption of this ordinance all milk and milk products
consumed raw shall be from herds or additions thereto which have been
found free from Bang's disease, as shown by blood serum tests for
agglutinins against Brucella abortus made in a laboratory approved
by the Milk Inspector. Said tests shall be made and reactors dispoodd
of in accordance with the requirements approved by the United States
Departmant of Agriculture. Bureau of Anim an Industry, for Bang's
disease-free accredited areas. All such herds shall be retested at
least every 12 months and all reactors disposed of in accordance
with the above requirements: Provided, That cattle which have been
vaccinated with an approved vaccine as calves between the ages of 4
and 8 months and which react to thw above test but are not producing
milk may be retained in the herd until they are 16 months of age, at
which time they shall be tested and if they react shall be disposed
of as required bLbovew A certificate identifying each animal by number
and signed by the laboratory making the test, shall be evidence of the
abovet est: Provided, That in modified Bang's-disease-free accredited
counties in which the modified accredited area plan is applied to the
dairy herds, the modified Bang'sdisease-free accredited area system
approved by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry::shall be accEp ted
in lieu of annual testing in non-infected herds of cattle.
Cows which show an exterisive or entire induration of one oP more
quarterd of the under upon physical examination,, whether secreting
abnormal milk oi? not; shall be permanently excluded from the milking
herd. Cows giving bloody, stringy, or otherwise abnormal milk, but
with only slight induration of the udder, shall be excluded from the
herd until re-examination sheww that the milk has become normal.
For other diseases such teats and examinations as the Milk
I specter may require shall be made at intervals and by methods
prescribed by him, and any diseased amimals or reactors shall be
disposed of as he may require.
Item 2r. Dairy Barn, Lighting. A dairy or milking bard
shall be required and in such sections thereof where cows are milked
windows shall be provided acid kept clean arid so arranged as to insure
adewuate light properly distributed, arid when necessary shall be
provided with adequate supplementary artificial light.
Item 3r. Dairy Barn Air b ace and ventilation. Much sections
of all dairy banns where cows are kept or inilked milked shall be well
ventilated and shall be so arranged as to a voif overcrowding.
Item 4r. Dairy Barn, Floors. The floors arid gutters of such
parts of all dairy barns in which cows are milked shall be constructed
of concrete or other impervious and easily cleaned materials, pro-
vided that if the milk to be pasteurized tight wood may be used,
shall be graded to drain properly, and shall be kept clean and in good
repair. No horses, fowl, calves, etc. , shall be permitted in
parts of the barn used for milking.
Item 5r. Dairy i3arn Walls and Ceil_iin_ so The walls and
ceilings of �1 dairy barns sha 1 be whitewash�ec once eacjt year or
painted once every two years or oftener, if necessary, or finished in
an a?proved manner, and shall be kept clean and in good repair. In
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case there is a second story above that part of the barn in which cows
are milked,, the coiling shall be tight. If tho f6ed room adjoins the
mUlling place, it shall be separated therefrom by a dust-tight partition
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and door. No feed shall be stored in the milking portion of the barn.
Item 6r. Dairy 3arn. k. owXard* All cowyards shall be graded
and drained as well as practicable and kept clean.
Item 7r. M&L ure Disposal.- All manure shall be removed and
stored or disposed sposed of in such manner as best to prevent the breeding of
, flies therein on the access of cows to piles thereof.
Item Or. M-Llk House or 'loom, onstruction. there shall be
provided a milk house or milk room in which the cooling, handling
and storing of milk and milk products andt he washing. bactericial
treatment and storing of milk containers and utensils shall be done.
(a) The milk house or room shall be provided with a tight floor
constructed of concrete or other impericus material, in good re-
pair, and graded to provided proper drainage. (b) It shall have walls and
and ceilings of such construction as to permit easy cleaning, and shall
be well painted or finished in an approved manner. (c) It shall be
well. 11 '-hted and venitlated, (d) It shall have all openings effect-
ively. screened including outward opening., self-closing doors,, unless
other effective means are provided to prevent the entrance -of-flies.
(e) It shall be used for no other purpose that the's-e s'p- 6cified above
except as may be approved by the Milk Inspector; shall not open direct-
ly into a stable on into any room used for domestic purposes; shall,
unless the milk is to be pasteurized, have water piped into it;
shall be provided with adequate facilities for the ehating of water
for the cleaning of utensils; shall be equipped with two-comoartment
stationary wash and rinse vats, except that in the case of retail
raw milk, if chlorine is employed as the principal bactericidal
treatment, the three-compartment type must be used; and shall, unless the
the milk is to be pasteurized, be partitioned to separate the handling of
of milk and the torage of cleaiised uhbnsils from the cleaning and other
operations, which shall be So located and constructed as to prevent
any contamination of the milk or of cleaned equiprpent.
Item 9r. Milk House or lioom, Cleanliness and Flies. The
floors-, walls, —ceilings, and equipment of the milk house or room shall
be hept clean at all times. All means necessary for the elimination
of flies shall be used.
Iteml0r. Toilet. Every dairy farm shall be provoded with
one or more sanitary toilets conveniently located and properly con-
structed., operated, and maintained, so that the waste is inaccessible to
flies and does not pollute the surface soil or contaminate any water
supply.
Item 11r. Water Supply. The water supply for the milk
room aid dairy barn shall be properly located, constructed,, and
operated, and shall be easily accessible, adequate,,: and. -of. saf.e
sanitary qual ity.
Item 12r. Utensils, Uonstruction. All mulit-use containers,
equipment, an;! other utensils used in the handling, storage, or
trarls )ortation of milk a milk products must be made of smooth
non-absobent material and of such construction as to be easily
cleaned, and must be in good repair. Joints and seams shall be
soldered flush, Woven wire cloth shall not be used for straining milk.
All milk pails shall be of small mouth design approved by the Milk
Inspector. ''he manufacture, tzicking, transportation, and handling of
single-servibe containers and container caps and covers shall be
conducted in a sanitary manner.
Iten 13 r. Uteiisils, U leaning. All multi-use containers,
equipment, and other utensils used in the handling, storage, or
transportation of milk and milk products must be thoroughly cleaned
after each usage.
Iten 14r. Utensils , Bactericidal Treatment. All multi-use
containers, equipment., and other uriterisils used in the handling,
storage, or transportation of milk or milk products shall between
eash usage be su];Dected to an approved bactericidal process with
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steam, hot water, chibroine, or hot air.
Item 15r. Utensils, Storage._ All containers and other
utensils used in the handling, storage, or transp rtation of milk
or milk products, shall be stored so as not to become contaminated before
being used.
Item 16r. Utensils a Handling. After bactericidal treatment
no container or of er mi t or milk utensil shall be handled in such
manner as to permit any part of any person or his clothing to come
in contact with any surface with which milk or milk products come
in contact.
Item 17r. Milking..- Udder and Teats Abnormal Milk. The udders
and teats of all milking cows shall be clean and rinsed with a bact-
ericidal solution at the time of milking. Abnomaa; milk shall be
kept out of the milk supply and shall be so handled and disposed of
as to preclude the infection of the cows and the c ontar4onation of
milk untensils.
Item 18r. Milking, '`"lanks. the flanks, bellis, and tails of
all milking in—cows shall be free from visible dirt at the time of
milking.
Item 19r. Milker's Hands. Milker's ahnds shall be clestn,
rinsed with a bactericidal solution, add dried with a clean towel
immediately before milking and following any interruption in the
milking operation. Wet-hand milking is prohibited. onvenient
facilities shall be provided foe thw washing of milker'shhhnds.
Item 20r. Clean clothing. bilkers and milk handlers shall
wear outher garments while milking or handling mLlk, milk products,
containers, utensils, or equipment.
Item 21r. Milk Stools. Milk stools shall belhept cleanp
Item 22r. Removal of Milk. Each pail or can of milk shall
be removed immediately to the milk house or straining room. No milk
shall be strained in the dairy barn.
Item 23r. Coolin�OMilk must be cooled immediately after
complet ono milking to 50 F, or less, and maintained at that
average temperature, as defined in section 1 (S ) , until, delivery.
If milk is delivered to a milk plant or receiving station forltast-
eurization or separation, it must be delivered within two hours after
completion of milking or cooled to 700F, or less and maintained at that
average temperature until delivered.
Item 24r. Bottling and Cappina. Milk and Milk products shall
be bottled from a container with a readily cleanable valve, or
by means of an approval bottling Tnachine. 'bottles shall be capped
by machine. Caps pr cap stock shall be purchased in sanitary containers
and kept therein in a clean dry place until used.
Item 25r. Persomal, health. the Milk Inspecotr or a physician
authorized by him shall examine and t ake a careful morbidity
history of every p erson connected with a retail raw dhlky, or about to
be employed, whose work brings him in contact with the production,
handling, storage . or transportation of milk, milk products, containers,
or equipment. If such examination or history suggests that such person
may be a carrier of ar infected with the organisms of typhoid or
paratyphiod fever or any other communicable diseases li*,ely to be
tracIsmitted through milk, he shall appropriate specimens of body
discharges andcause them to b e examined in a laboratory approved by
him or by the State Health- authorities for such examinations, and
if the results justify, such person shall be barred from such
employment.
Such persons shall furnish such information, submit to such
physicial examinatim s, and submit such labpratory specimens ad the
Y lk Inspector require for the purpose of determining freedom from
infection.
Item 26r. Miscellaneous. All vehicles used fpr the
transportation o£ milk or milk p roducts shall b e so constructed
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and operated as to protect their contents from the mum aid from
contamination. All vehicles used forthe transportation of milk or
milk products in their final delivery containers shall be constructed
with permanent tops and with permanent roll-down sides and back,
provided that openings of the size necessary to pass the delivery man
may be permitted in the sides or back for laoding and unloading pruposes.
All vehicles shall be kept clean, and no substance capable of contamib--. "'i
nating milk of milk products shall be transpbilted with milk or milk
products in such manner as to permij.; contamination. All vehicles used fo'
for the distribution of milk or milk products shall have the name of the
distril)utor prominently displayed.
The immediate surroundings of the dairy shall be Icept in
a clean neat condition.
Grade B. Raw Milk. Grade B Raw milk is raw milk which
violates the bacterial standard and/or the abortion testing re-
quirementaxx for grade A raw milk, but which conforms with all
other requirements for grade A raw milk, and has an average bac-
terial plate count not exceeding 1000,000 per cubic cettmeterip or an
average direct microscopic count not exceeding 1000,000 per cubic
centimeter if c1tLmps are counted, or 4,000,000 per cubic centimeter
if individual orga&ismb are counted, or an average reduction time of not
less than 31 hours, as determined under section I (S) and 6.
Grade C Raw Milk. Grade C raw milk is raw milk which violates
any of the requirements for grade B raw milk.
Certified Milk-Pasteurized. Certified milk-?asteurized is
certified raw milk which hasb been pasteurized, cooled, and bottled
in a milk plant conforming with the requirements for grade A
pasteurized milk.
grade A -asteurized Milk. Grade A ' asteurized milk is Grade
raw milk with such exceptions as are indicated if the mill is to be
pasteurized, which has been pasteurized, cooled, and b ottled in a
milk plant conforming with all of the following items of sanitation
and the average bacterial plate count of which it no time after
pasteurization and until delivery explate count of which at no time
after asteurization and until delivery exceeds 30,000 per cubic
cenitmeter, as deterimined under section 1 (S ) and 6.
The grading of a pasteurized milk supply shall include the
inspection of receiving and collecting stations with respect to items
1p to 15p, inclusive, and 17p,19p.22p, and 23p, except that the
partitioning requirement of item 5p shall not apply.
Itemlp. Floors. The floors of all rooms in which milk
or mi*Yk- products are handled or stored or in which milk utensils are
washed shall be contructed of concrete or other equally impervious
and easily cleaned materials and shall be smooth, properly drained, Aft,
provided with trapped drains, and kept clean.
Item 2p. Walls and Ceilings. Walls and ceilings of rooms in
which milk or milk products are handled or stored or in thich milk
utensils are washed shall have a smooth, wa� able, light-colored
surface and shall be kept clean.
Item 3p. Doors and Windows. Unless other effective means
are oTo-vided to prevent the access of flies, all openings into the
outer air shall be effectively screened and doors and shall be self-
closing.
Item 4p. Lighting and Venttlating. All rooms shall be well
lights-d and vent i1_ate_J_.
Item 5p. M-scellaneous erotection From Contanination. The
various milk plant operations ahall be so located and conducted as to
prevent al contamination of the milk or of the cleaned equipment.1
All means necessary for the elimination of flies shall be used. here
shall be separate rooms for (a) the pasteurizing, processing, cooling
and bottling operations, and (b) the washin and bactericidal treatment
of contsinersq Cans of raw milk shall bot ge unloaded directly into
the pasteurizing room. Pasteurized milk or milk products shall not
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be permitted to come in contact with equipment with which unpasteurized
milk or milk products have been in contact, unless such equipment has
first been thoroughly cleaned and subjected to bactericidal treatment9
Rooms in which milk, milk products, cleaned untensils, or containers
are handled or stored shall not open directly into nny stable or
living quarters. The pasteurization plant shall be used for no other
purposes thahr:of milk and milk products and the operations incident
thereto, except as may be approved by the Milk Inspector.
Item 6p. Toilet Facilities. Every milk plant shall bd provided
with toilet aeilities conforming with the ordinances of the City of
Jefferson« �oilet rooms shall not - open directly into any room in which
milk, milk products, equipment, or contat ners are handled or stored.
The doors of all toilet rooms shall be self-closing. toilet rooms
shall be kept in a clean condition, in good repair, and well ventilated,
In case privies or earth closets are permitted and used, they shall be
separate from the building, and shall be If a sanitary typgr, constructed
and operated in conformity with the requirements of item 10r, grade A raw
milk.
Item 7p. Water su l .The water supply shall be easily
accessible., adequate, and of a safe, sanitary quality.
Item 8 Hand-WashinZ Facilities. `'onvenient hand-washing
facilities shall be provided,, including hot and cold running water,
soad, andapproved sanitary towels. the use of the common towel is
prohibited.
Item 9p. Sanitary t'i in . All piping used to conduct milk
or milk products shall be sanitary milk piping" of a type which can
be easily cleaned with a brush. Pasteurized milk and milk products
shall be conducted from one piece of equipment to another only
through sanitary milk piping.
Item 19E. Construction and Repair of Containers and
Equipment. mu ti-use cont ners sand' egiiipine with which milk or
milk products come in contact shall be constructed in such manner
as to be easily cleaned and shall be kept in good repair. the manu-
facture, packing, trans portation, and handling of single-service
containers and container caps and covers shall be cm nducted in s
say itary manner.
Item Up. bisposal of Wastes. All wastes shall be properly
disposed of.
Item 12p. Cleaning and Bactericidal Treatment of Containers
and equipment. All milk a :c? grill:_?roducts containers and equipment,
exceot single-eervice containers, sh-11 be thoroughly cleaned after
each usai e. J'-11 contai--icrs shall be sub jected to an approved bac-
tericidal ,)rocess after each cleaning and all couipment irr?nediately
Before orch usage. When er :)ty a nd before being returned to a pro-
ducer by a milk :Ilent each (:: Intsiner shall be eff .ctively cleaned
and subjected to bactericidal treatment.
Item 13P. Storage of Containers and Equipment. After bac-
tericidal treatment all bottles , cans, and ether multi-use Y• ilk or
milk-products containers and equipment shall be stored in such manner
as to be protected from c �ntamination.
Item lop. liandlinF.., of Containers and Equipment. :3etween bac-
tericidal treatar.ent and upa�;e, runt during usage, containers, and eo;uip-
shall not be h,-ndled or o ^r tea. in such r a!-ner as to oermit con-
tamination of the milk.
Item 15:x. StornrF e of Ca:7sL� nrchm-ent -'goer, and `inrl•le-
Service— i to inert ;. . lk- oY,tles c^. )s or cap stock, ^rchnaent as per
for milk cans , and sin<.1e-„ervice contn.i ners sh311 'acs purc:faced rai=d
stored only In sanitar- tu'•)es rind cart-ns, res=pectively, grid shall
be therein in a clean r:r,! place.
Item 1Gp. 1 asteuri�:aticn. iasteuri.,,ation shall ',;e _)-!r,Vormed
^sdescribed in Section 1 (L) of t':-;is croinance.
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�ro(lucts recolvod for
l7p. Cool.11'�Lr. Lll " Ilk M-1d
1— 1)r nt
pn9tourizotlon sliTl coolod In noprovcd e� e to
500p, or less arl(.! ,jaiy,tal.nod at that tu: �(-"ra-turo until p").-Lou, lZed,
unless tl�e.y are to be i)asteurized wlt?- In 2 hours nftcr recel ,)t and a 11
oastourized milk and milk products shall he i1r,modiatolu C.Oled in
approved eciiiipmont to an avcrae to-ti,,porature of 5COP. or 1c.-s , as
defined in Section 1 (S ) and "n Into 1 i-iiiig t?.ercat until delivery*
Item l8p. -jottl * 5ottllng of milk and milk products shall
be _)nsteurI,_,ati3n in a.):)roved mechanical ocu ip-
ment
Item 19p._ 6verfloy,
Overflow I,iilk or milk )roducts
shall not be sold for human consum.)tion.
Item 20-,). CaL)i� ng (:.f riilk and milk )rooucts shall
1&__ . .. -)r o h I'-)i t e d
.)e done ,)y appro- od reclhanical coi,,inment. band cap Arlf: is
The cap or cover shall cover the pouring lip to at least its larg.est
dinmeter.
Item 21p. Sersonncl , 11calth. he Milk Inspector or a
d take T 7
physician authorized by him shat examine ran t I e a careful morbidity
history cif every person connected with a ')nste-urization plant, or a")out
to be employed whose work brings him in contact kiith the production,
handling, storaf,- ntion of milk, milk products,
,e, cr transport, con
tainers, or equipment. If such e-%.-arriinntion or IAstory su.r:,7-ests th- t
such person may be a carrier of or infected ,•. ith the or-anisims of
tyohiod or -)aratyphoid fever or any other communicable diseases likely
to be transmitted through milk, he shall secure a )oropriate specimens
of body discharges andcause, them to be examined in a laboratory approved
by him of by the State ealth nuthorities for such examinations, and if
the results iustify such person shall be barred from such employment.
6uch persons shall. furnish such information, submit to such
physical examinations, and submit such laboratory specimens as the
Vilk Inspector may require for the purpose of deteririning freedom
from infection.
Item 22o. c'ersonnel . Uleanliness. All oe.rs..-.ns coming in contact wi
with milk, milk products, containers ., or equipment shall wear clean
outer pni3ments end shall keep t,-ier hands clean at all times while
thus en1ar_•ed.
Item 230. N:iscellaneous. All vehicles used f'or the transporb4-
tion of milk or milk products shn :l be so constructed and operated as
to protect their contents from the si,,- -nd from contamination.
All vehicles used for the trnsportbtion of milk or milk products in
their final delivery c--.ntainers shall be constructed with permanent
tops and with permanent or roll-down sides and back, provided that
openings of the size necessar-
y to pass a delivery 1-nn may loe n. ormitted
in the sides or back for loading and unloading purposes. All vehicl.
shall be kept clean, and no substance capable of contaminating milk
or milk products shall be transoorted with milk or milk products
in such manner as to permit contsm ination. All vehicles used fort he
distribution of milk or milk -)roducts shall have the name of the
distributor prominently displayed.
The immediate surroundings of the milk plant shall be hept
in a neat, clean condition.
Grade 3 1 asteurized milk. Grade B pasteurized milk is
pasteurized milic which violntcd the bacterial star lard for grade A
ppsteruized milk and/or the ,)rovisi(,n of lip-cover caps of' item
20p and/or the requirement tiiat 2-rade A raw milk be used, but which
conforms - ith all other requirements for i.,rade A ?astourized milk,
has boon made from raw milts of not less that �-rade B quality, and has
an average bacterial plate count after pnsteruizatlon and before mm
delivery not exceeding 50,CC0 per cubic centimete, as determined
under Section 1 (S-) and 6.
Grade C ?asteruized ilk. "rade C pasteurized milk is past-
eurized milk which ciolated any of tl,e requirements for grade B
pasteurized rilk.
Sccti . n B ,rides of R. Ilk and f, 1.1k Lroducts Vihi_cll >`.av be
Sold. From�t} c date un which this ordinance t,nlccs effect rip m3.11t or
mills products shall he sold to the final corlc>rzmer or to restunrtlnts
soda fount-ains, grocery stores, or 1milar setablishments except
Trade A pasteurized, Grade A certified and Trade A .raw, Providedi
that vi!-yen arty milk clistributcr f ni.ls to qualify for one of the above
grades the ?'ilk Inspector is authorized to revoke his :)crrnit, or in
lieu thereof to degrade his )roduct and nerrrit its sale during a
pemporar,r, period not exceeding .30 days or in emerc_:cncies such l-:)n •er
period as he ma,T deem necessary.
Section 9. Supplementary Gradi.:C• Prescribed and. Regrading
Authorized. If, at any time between ro;°:ular anno.ancements of the
grades of milk or milk products , a lower rrade sh 111 become ;ustified,
in accordance with sections 5, G, and 7 of t;is ordinance, the P,,ilk
Inspector shall immediately lower the i,• rade of such mill: or milk
products, and. shall enforce proper labeling and placarding thereof.
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Any ;producer or distributor of inilk or milk products the
grade of which has been lowered by the L' ilk Inspector, and who is
properly labeling his mills and milk products, may nt any t ir.e make
application for the re;_;rading of Ynis productx.
Upon receipt of a satisfactory application, in case the lowered
L,rade is the result of an excessive average bacterial plate count
direct miscroscopic count, reduction time. or cooling temperature,
the P� ilk Inspector shall talce furtlher samples of the applicant ' s
output, at a rate of not more than two samples per week. `L'he Wilk
Inspector shall reE-rrade the milk or milk products upward whenever the
average of the :Last four samples in- icates the necessary quality, but
not before the hapse of two weeks from the date of de;°rading.
In case the lowered trade of the applicant ' s product is due
to a violation of an item of the specifications )rescribed in Sectio r
7, other than avoraEe oacterial olate count, direct microscopic c ount,
reduction time, or cooli-gg temo,irature , the same application rust he
accompanied b7r a statement si..°r.ed by the apo1ic9nt to the effect that
the violated item of the spocificati.ons has been conformed with.
Vtithin 1 week of the receipt of such an ap-plication ah.d statement
the Yilk Inspector shall make rein :-)ection of the applicant ' s es-
tablishment, and thereafter as many additional reinspecticns ns h_e
may deer,' necessary to assure _limself that the applicant is a,.^ain coms
plPring with the hi-her :°rade requirements , and, in case tl,e findings
iustify, shall rec°rade the milk or mills :products up,.^,ard., but not before
the 1-.pse of two wi-eks from the date of regrading.
Section 10. Trarlsferrinf or pipping [, ilk Delivery dontai ier ;
}=n dlin,, of_ P ore Than One Grades '.eli.vc�ry of }, ilk at Quarantined
hesidences, xcept as permitted. in this section, no nilk producer or
distributor shall tra:.sfer i iilk or *silk orod.ucts from one container
to another on the street, or in any vehich.e or store, or in any place
except a bottling or milk room especially used fort hat purpise. he
sale of dip milk is hereby .)rohibited.
All )asteurized milli and milk products shall be placed in their
final delivery containers in the plant in which they are pnstel.lrized,
and all raw milk and milk products sold. for c .nsumpion in the raw
state shall be placed in their final delivery containers at the farm
at which thev are produced. P;:ilk and mills products sold in the
distributor ' s c.ntai:lers in quanities less than 1 E•allon shall be de-
livered instandard milk bottles of in single-service contai ers.
It shall be unlawful for hotels, soda fountains, restuarants, por-
ceries, and similar establisllrlents to sell or serve any vilk of milk
products except in the individual orif-inal c::;ntninerx in which it w2s
received from the distributor or Crow a bulk contni ner equipped with
an approved dispensinf device; 1'rouided, r-Lhat t:iis requirement shall not
apply to cream c ,nsumed on tl,e �rer� ises , which r.,iay be served from the
orit__•inal bottle or from a 61s.�enser approved fror.� si ch service.
1t shall l)e unlawful for any hotel , soda f'ountr�in, recto grant,
c-;rocery, or smaller estn'Olishment to sell or serve any milk or milk
products which lievc. riot heen vaintnined . at
� ,
a temperature of 50JoF. or less.
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1,o milk or milk products shall be i)crr: Uteri to conic in
contact with cq,,ilpinent with %-.�Jch a Idwer of !i,ilkc or inilk
Droduct has been in contact '.)"less ni.,ch cqi�ipmcnt has first been
.thorou�_•hly clannod and sjj,)iected to 1)nctoricidal tr,-.-.t'! ('nt.
The pourinF lips of bottles containing- 11k or milk prodiicts
in non-lonkproof contt, iners shall riot ','a 1.n venter for
cooling.
L sholl be t!,,e duty all ,)orsons to whom milk or milk
products are delivered to clean th(,,rou:hlv the cont-iners in which
such milk or milk )roducLs ore delivered before returing, such con-
tainers. Apparatus, contr,incrss , cqi.iiprinnt nn(2 utensils used in the
hondling,, storage, procossin;_-, or trn.,icporting of milk or milk
products shall not be used for ai IT other )urpose without the per-
mission of the Nlillc Inspector.
Section 11. L':ilk and Cream From 2oints :3c,;tlnd the Limits of
-C;It_7�5-__Jefferson L.ilk and cream from points
Ipspoction of I the f ity.- - 1 -1 pity Yria-
be-ond t c linits of insocction of the �It .� of Jeffersoi
1 T riot
be sold in the Uity of Jeffers ,n unless oroduced and :),-isteurized under
the provisions of t",is ordinance , except as may be authorized by the
T-`-lk Inspector in case of eiriertrency.
The Limits of inspection)ection are: The County of Uole and other
territory .,-.ot more than twenty (20) miles distant from the City of
jcff,:rson Cit,, %r. 1*1,''r milk producer or milk (U�,.tributor be-ond these
limits eras submit,to the provisions of this ordin-nce, provided such
person reciucst inspection by t1he Vilk- Inspector of the city of Jeffer-
son and pay for the services of such [.%illc T,spector as herein provided.
Section 12. Future Lairies and 1.;ilk 2lints. All. O.airies rind
mil}{ olnnts frorr, which milk cr 1 illj�proriicts sre supolied to the
City of Jefferson which are hereafter construted, reconstructed, or
extensi ely altered shall conform in t, eir construction to the re-
quirements of t.",is ordinance for --reCie A (IiAry farms producing rilk
for consumption in t}-le raw state , or for f-.:rade A oasteurization plants ,
t -nt )f P_ two-room milk house
respectively; ro,. 1(�ed, t� r r en.�:
shall be waived in the case of the mill{ from 1-iich is to be
pasteurized. . roperl,,r -)reonre(l :)!.n _s for all dairies F.',id milk plonts
i;hich are hereafter constructed, reconstructed or i-.xters1vel,.- altered
shall be !7Wbr-,ittcd to the Milk Ins;)ector for a•.),proval. bcfbire work' is
begun: .. In the case �f milk plants signed a.)proval Shall '.)e obtained
from the I.,ilk- I,spector and.or the State "cAth !.�eoartrient.
Section 13. 3,o )orson vih�o is suffering 'with any disease in a
communicable form :)r is a carrier of such discaso shall work at a-iy
dairy farm or milk plant in any caoacity w1nich brings him in contact
with the production, handling, storage, or transporation of milk,
milk products , containers, or equipment; and i-lo dairy farm OrAT111.1k
plant shall employ En any such capacity any such person or any oerson
suspected of being affected with any disease in a communicable form
or of being a carrier of such disease. Any Droducer or ristrilbaLytor o
of milk or milk products upon whose dairy farm or in whose gills Plant
any communicable disease occurs, or who suspects that any employee
has contracted any disease in a coi,rinini cable form or has become a
carrier of such disease , shall notify the L"ilk Trispector irrmediate17,.
A placard containing thbs section shall be posted in all toilet rooms
or nrivies.
! ecti-,)n 14. Procedure 'hon '.[nfnct1.on -v.s;3ected. ,When sus-
picion arises ris to the of trnnsrissi ri of infection
from nn-T oorson ooncerned with the handlinr of 1°,ilk, or rilic oroducts
the Pr ilk Inspector is authorized to require any or all of the follow-
irig,, measures: (1 ) the linnediate exclus :on of that !)erscn from milk
handling,, (2) tle immediate oxcliisicn cf the r-!ilk suq;)ly concerned-
from distribution and use , (3 ) nf'equate medical and bacteriolo'f-,,i C a 1
extermination uf the Person., of 1--is associates, iind of his and their
body dischar,._-,es.
Section 15. Foe for Inspection Be,Tond Limits. "'or ead-
ins,)ection, including testing anO. -r a( 1 f-
, !lade ' e 0_�_I-tho
li-its of
inspection the 1�,ilk Inspector shall collect
in advance from the
.)erson reqitcstinr✓ same a foil of Ten 11ollars (;,j0. CC) )or day or part