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colored surface and shall be kept clean.
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<br />Item 3p. Doors and windows - Unless other effective means are provided to prevent
<br /> the access of flies, all openings into the outer air shall be effectively screened and
<br /> doors shall be self-closing.
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<br />Item 4p. Lighting and ventilation - All rooms shall be well lighted and ventilated.
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<br />Item 5p. Miscellaneous protection from contamination - The various milk-plant
<br /> operations shall be so located and conducted as to prevent any contamination of the milk
<br /> or of the cleaned equipment. All means necessary for the elimination of flies shall be
<br /> used. There shall be separate rooms for (a) the pasteurizing, processing, cooling, and
<br /> bottling operations, and (b) the washing and bactericidal treatment of containers. Cans
<br /> of raw milk shall not be unloaded directly into the pasteurizing room. Pasteurized milk
<br /> or milk products shall not be permitted to come in contact with equipment with which un-
<br /> pasteurized milk or milk products have been in contact, unless such equipment has first
<br /> been thoroughly cleaned and subjected to bactericidal treatment. Rooms in which milk,
<br /> milk products, cleaned utensils, or containers are handled or stored shall not open
<br /> directly into any stable or living quarters. The pasteurization plant shall be used for
<br /> no other purposes than the processing of milk and milk products and the operations
<br /> incident thereto, except as may be approved by the health officer.
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<br />Item 6p. Toilet facilities - Every milk plant shall be provided with toilet
<br /> facilities conforming with the ordinances of the City of Charlottesville. Toilet rooms
<br /> shall not open directly into any room in which milk, milk products, equipment, or containers
<br /> are handled or stored. The doors of all toilet rooms shall be self-closing. Toilet rooms
<br /> shall be kept in a clean condition, in good repair, and well ventilated. In case privies
<br /> or earth closets are permitted and used, they shall be separate from the building, and
<br /> shall be of a sanitary type constructed and operated in conformity with the requirements
<br /> of item 10r, grade A raw milk.
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<br />Item 7p. Water supply - The water supply shall be easily accessible, adequate,
<br /> and of a safe, sanitary quality.
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<br />Item 8p. Hand-washing facilities - Convenient hand washing facilities shall be
<br /> provided, including warm running water, soap, and approved sanitary towels. The use of
<br /> a common towel is prohibited.
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<br />Item 9p. Sanitary piping - All piping used to conduct milk or milk products shall
<br /> be "sanitary milk piping" of a type which can be easily cleaned with a brush. Pasteurized
<br /> milk and milk products shall be conducted from one piece of equipment to another only
<br /> through sanitary milk piping.
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<br />Item 10p. Construction and repair of containers and equipment - All multi-use
<br /> containers and equipment with which milk or milk products come in contact shall be
<br /> constructed in such manner as to be easily cleaned and shall be kept in good repair. The
<br /> manufacture, packing, transportation, and handling of single-service containers and
<br /> container caps and covers shall be conducted in a sanitary manner.
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<br />Item 11p. Disposal of wastes - All wastes shall be properly disposed of.
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<br />Item 12p. Cleaning and bactericidal treatment of containers and equipment - All
<br /> milk and milk products containers and equipment, except single-service containers, shall
<br /> be thoroughly cleaned after each usage. All containers shall be subjected to an
<br /> approved bactericidal process after each cleaning and all equipment immediately before
<br /> each usage. When empty and before being returned to a producer by a milk plant each
<br /> container shall be effectively cleaned and subjected to bactericidal treatment.
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<br />Item 13p. Storage of containers and equipment - After bactericidal treatment
<br /> all bottles, cans, and other multi-use milk or milk-products containers and equipment
<br /> shall be stored in such manner as to be protected from contamination.
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<br />Item 14p. Handling of containers and equipment - Between bactericidal treatment
<br /> and usage, and during usage, containers and equipment shall not be handled or operated
<br /> in such manner as to permit contamination of the milk.
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<br />Item 15p. Storage of caps, parchment paper, and single-service containers - Milk-
<br /> bottle caps or cap stock, parchment paper for milk cans, and single-service containers
<br /> shall be purchased and stored only in sanitary tubes and cartons, respectively, and
<br /> shall be kept therein in a clean dry place.
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<br />Item 16p. Pasteurization - Pasteurization shall be performed as described in
<br /> section 1(L) of this ordinance.
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<br />Item 17p. Cooling - All milk and milk products received for pasteurization shall
<br /> immediately be cooled in approved equipment to 50° F. or less and maintained at that
<br /> temperature until pasteurized unless they are to be pasteurized within one hour after
<br /> receipt; and all pasteurized milk and milk products shall be immediately cooled in
<br /> approved equipment to an average temperature of 50° F. or less, as defined in section
<br /> 1 (S), and maintained thereat until delivery.
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<br />Item 18p. Bottling - Bottling of milk and milk products shall be done at the
<br /> place of pasteurization in approved mechanical equipment.
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<br />Item 19p. Overflow milk - Overflow milk or milk products shall not be sold for
<br /> human consumption.
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<br />Item 20p. Capping - Capping of milk and milk products shall be done by approved
<br /> mechanical equipment. Hand capping is prohibited. The cap or cover shall cover the
<br /> pouring lip to at least its largest diameter.
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<br />Item 21p. Personnel, health - The health officer or a physician authorized by
<br /> him shall examine and take a careful morbidity history of every person connected with a
<br /> pasteurization plant, or about to be employed, whose work brings him in contact with
<br /> the production, handling, storage, or transportation of milk, milk products, containers,
<br /> or equipment. If such examination or history suggests that such person may be a
<br /> carrier of, or infected with, the organisms of typhoid or paratyphoid fever or any other
<br /> communicable diseases likely to be transmitted through milk, he shall secure appropriate
<br /> specimens of body discharges and cause them to be examined in a laboratory approved by
<br /> him or by the State health authorities for such examinations, and if the results justify,
<br /> such person shall be barred from such employment.
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<br />Such persons shall furnish such information, submit to such physical examinations,
<br /> and submit such laboratory specimens as the health officer may require for the purpose
<br /> of determining freedom from infection.
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<br />Item 22p. Personnel, cleanliness - All persons coming in contact with milk, milk
<br /> products, containers, or equipment shall wear clean outer garments and shall keep their
<br /> hands clean at all times while thus engaged.
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<br />Item 23p. Miscellaneous - All vehicles used for the transportation of milk or
<br /> milk products shall be so constructed and operated as to protect their contents from
<br /> the sun and from contamination. All vehicles used for the transportation of milk or
<br /> milk products in their final delivery containers shall be constructed with permanent
<br /> tops and with permanent or roll-down sides and back, provided that openings of the size
<br /> necessary to pass the delivery man may be permitted in the sides or back for loading
<br /> and unloading purposes. All vehicles shall be kept clean, and no substance capable of
<br /> contaminating milk or milk products shall be transported with milk or milk products in
<br /> such manner as to permit contamination. All vehicles used for the distribution of milk
<br /> or milk products shall have the name of the distributor prominently displayed.
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