§ 416-16.802. Sanitation requirements—Generally.

Every person engaged in or carrying on any mink raising operation shall comply with all of the following requirements with respect to such operations:

(1)

Cage Drainage: All mink cages used for the raising, keeping or breeding of mink shall be mounted and maintained in such positions or manner that no moisture can accumulate or remain standing under the cages.

(2)

Cage Sanitation: All accumulations of manure, mink food and waste matter shall be removed or maintained so as to prevent the breeding of flies.

(3)

Food Handling: All mink food, or organic materials used in the preparation of food, shall be completely enclosed, except when in transit, in fly-proof, watertight containers at all times during which such food or materials are not actually being processed, minced, chopped or ground by hand or machinery, or fed to mink. All such processing, chopping or grinding shall be conducted or carried on in food preparation houses which meet the standards and requirements set forth in this chapter.

(4)

Food Preparation Houses — Construction: Food preparation houses shall be entirely paved with a smooth floor of concrete or some equally durable and impervious substance, equipped with adequate and effective floor drains draining to an underground waste disposal system, and the doorways, windows, and all openings or apertures leading therein shall be completely covered with fly screening.

(5)

Food Preparation Houses and Equipment — Sanitation: All food preparation houses and all soiled machinery, equipment, utensils and implements used in the preparation of mink food shall be washed, cleaned, and dried daily immediately after use, and the waste water from such washing and cleaning shall be disposed of in an underground waste disposal system.

(6)

Garbage and Waste Disposal: All waste or spoiled organic matter whatsoever, including but not limited to garbage, spoiled or unused mink food, dead mink, and manure of any kind shall be completely disposed of by removal from the premises in a manner and to a site not prohibited by law, burial or chemical destruction at such times and intervals as may be necessary to prevent the odor thereof from being perceptible at any point on the perimeter by federal or state agencies nor to other similar establishments, for the packing, treatment, and processing of agricultural products and crops of all kinds (including, but not limited to establishments of the premises upon which the mink raising operation is conducted).

(Prior code § 4327: Ord. 1446).