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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, steriliza-
tion with steam, hot water or sodium hypochlorite may be dis-
pensed 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 in-
sanitary.

(f) The clothing of operatives, employees, clerks or other
persons must be clean.

(g) The side walls and ceilings in that part of bottling
establishments in which the beverages or syrups are manu-
factured 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
preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribu-
tion 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 man-
ufacture 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 available for 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.

SEC. 150D. And be it further enacted, That persons, firms
or corporations granted a license to manufacture soft drinks