Regulating the Handling and Sale of Meat, Meat Products and Sea Food and Providing for the Issuance of Permits Therefor

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Section 3. All vehicles used for transporting meat and meat products shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. The meat shall be protected from flies and dust while being trans- ported. No meats shall be sold or peddled on the street unless kept in a clean closed box, refrigerator or display case so as to avoid contact with flies and dust and provided with proper ventila- tion and refrigeration necessary to keep such meat from becoming contaminated or spoiled while handling. Neat or meat products that are being sold anywhere with- in the city of South.Bend shall not be handled by any person or persons other than those necessarily engaged in making the sale or offer of sale thereof and when delivered pursuant to sale shall be wrapped in water proof butchers' paper. No meat or meat products shall be placed upon the scales weighing same. unless the surface of such scale is composed of porcelain, glass or other material impervious to water and kept clean and free from contamination at all times and it shall be proper when weighing such meat or meat products to place on the surface of the scale clean white paper and place the meat thereon. S -detion 4. Refrigerators and meat hooks shall be kept perfectly clean. No tainted meat, foodstuff. or other source of con- tamination shall be placed in such tefrigerator, meat box or display case with meat that is being sold or offered for sale or kept for sale. The refrigerator, display case or meat boxes shall be.kept dry on the inside at all time. All refrigerators, display cases or meat hooks, scales, platters and trays used in the storing, sale or offering for sale of meat shall be cleaned daily and scoured.,with hot water and lye not less than once a week and oftener if necessary to keep such materials clean and free from odor. After scouring,, it shall be washed with a- solution of common aoda:or other such solution. -2-