1602 ARTICLE 43.
(b) The floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements
and machinery of every establishment where drink products are manu-
factured, packed, stored, sold or distributed shall at all times be kept in a
clean, healthful and sanitary condition.
(c) Drink products in the process of manufacture, preparation, packing,
storing, sale or distribution must be securely protected from flies, dust,
dirt, and, as far as may be necessary, from all other foreign or injurious
contamination.
(d) All refuse, dirt and waste products subject to decomposition and
fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing,
selling and distribution of drink products must be removed from the
premises daily.
(e) All bottles, jugs, barrels and other containers used in the packing,
storage, distribution and sale of drink products must be cleansed with
water containing a detergent or cleansing mixture and before filling with
food product must be sterilized with boiling water, live steam or a solution
of sodium hypochlorite, or by some other effective system which meets with
the approval of the Board of Health. It is provided, however, that when
bottles are washed by machine with the water at a temperature of at
least 125° F. and containing a cleansing mixture of a strength equivalent
to at least 2 1/2% caustic soda, and are rinsed with clean, pure water, sterili-
zation with steam, hot water or sodium hypochlorite may be dispensed with.
All water used for rinsing must be potable and of good sanitary quality.
The cleansing solution must be changed frequently so as to prevent its
becoming foul and insanitary.
(f) The clothing of operatives, employees, clerks or other persons must
be clean.
(g) The side walls and ceilings in that part of bottling establish-
ments in which the beverages or syrups are manufactured shall be kept oil
painted or well lime washed and all interior woodwork in every bottling
establishment shall be kept washed and cleaned with soap and water, and
every building, room, basement or cellar occupied for use in the prepara-
tion, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of drink products
shall have an impermeable floor made of cement or tile, laid in cement,
brick, wood or other suitable non-absorbent material which can be flushed
and washed clean with water.
(h) The doors, windows and other openings of syrup rooms or any part
of a bottling establishment used in the manufacture or mixing of syrups
and extracts, etc., shall be fitted with self closing screen doors and wire
window screens made with wire of not less than fourteen meshes to the
inch.
(i) No employer shall knowingly permit, require or suffer any person
to work in a bottling establishment who is afflicted with any contagious
or infectious disease, or with any skin disease.
(j) Every bottling establishment shall be provided with or have avail-
able fqr use, a convenient washroom and toilet of sanitary construction,
but such toilet shall be entirely separate and apart from any room used
for the manufacture or storage of drink products.
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