Milk Ordinance for the City of South Bend

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Y I 0 ITEM 20p. "Capping, - Capping of milk and milk products shall be done by approved mechanical equipment, Hand capping is prohibited. The cap or cover shall cover the pouring lip to at,least its largest diameter. ITEM 21p. Personnel, health. - The health officer or a physician authorized by him shall examine and take a careful morbidity history of every person connected with a pasteurization plant, or about to be employed, whose work brings him in contact with the production, handling, storage, or transportation of milk, milk products, con- tainers, or equipment. If such examination or history suggests that such person may be a carrier of or infected with the organisms of typhoid or paratyphoid fever or any other communicable diseases likely to be transmitted through milk, he shall secure appropriate specimens of body discharges and cause them to be examined in s: laboratory approved by him or by the State health authorities for such examinations, and if the results justify such person shall be barred from such employment. Such persons shall furnish such information, submit to such physical examinations, and submit such laboratory specimens as the health officer may require for the purpose of determining freedom from infection. ITEM 22p, Personnel, cleanliness. - All persons coming in contact with milk, milk products, containers,, or equipment shall wear clean outer garments and shall keep their hands clean at all times while thus engaged. ITEM 23p. Miscellaneous.,- All vehicles used for the trans- portation of milk or milk products shall be so constructdd and operated as to protect their contents from the sun and from contami- nation. All vehicles used for the transportation of milk or milk products in their final delivery containers shall be constructed with permanent tops and with permanent or roll -down sides and back, pro- vided that openings of the size necessary to pass the delivery man may be permitted in the sides or back for loading and unloading purposes. All vehicles shall be kept clean, and no substance capable of contaminating milk or milk products shall be transported with milk or milk products in such manner as to permit contamination, All vehicles used for the distribution of milk or milk products shall have the name of the distributor prominently displayed. - 14 -