PUBLIC HEALTH REASON
Cleanliness in the milkhouse reduces the likelihood of contamination of the milk.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
This Item is deemed to be satisfied when:
The milkhouse structure, equipment and other milkhouse facilities, used in its operation or maintenance, are clean at all times.
Incidental articles such as desks, refrigerators, and storage cabinets may be in the milkhouse, provided they are kept clean and ample space is available to conduct the normal operations in the milkhouse and will not cause contamination of the milk.
Vestibules, if provided, are kept clean.
Animals and fowl are kept out of the milkhouse.
Every dairy farm shall be provided with one (1) or more toilets; conveniently located; properly constructed; operated; and maintained in a sanitary manner. The waste shall be inaccessible to insects and shall not pollute the soil surface or contaminate any water supply.
The organisms of typhoid fever, dysentery and gastrointestinal disorders may be present in the body wastes of persons who have these diseases. In the case of typhoid fever, well persons (carriers) also may discharge the organisms in their body wastes. If a toilet is not fly-tight and so constructed as to prevent overflow, infection may be carried from the excreta to the milk, either by flies or through the pollution of ground water supplies or streams to which the lactating animals have access.
This Item is deemed to be satisfied when:
There is at least one (1) flush toilet connected to a public sewer system, or to an individual sewage-disposal system, or a chemical toilet, earth pit privy or other type of privy. Such sewage systems shall be constructed and operated in accordance with the standards outlined in Appendix
of this Ordinance, or when a Regulatory Agency has more effective standards designed specifically for that region, these standards may apply, provided, there is not any mixing of animal and human waste. NOTE: The text “or when a Regulatory Agency has more effective standards designed specifically for that region, these standards may apply” as cited in 1 above, shall not be applicable to a TPC authorized under the ICP.
NOTE: The text “or when a Regulatory Agency has more effective standards designed specifically for that region, these standards may apply” as cited in 1 above, shall not be applicable to a TPC authorized under the ICP.
A toilet or privy is convenient to the milking barn and the milkhouse. There shall be no evidence of human defecation or urination about the premises.
No privy opens directly into the milkhouse.