Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 8.28 Meat Processing

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State Law reference— Provisions on meat inspection and sanitation, Health and S. C. § 111950 et seq.

The term "hamburger" or "hamburg steak" shall be deemed and construed to mean ground beef with or without suet added.

(Prior code § 5550.1)

The Health Officer is empowered to enter any place where meat, fish, game, poultry or any product thereof is stored, held, kept, exposed or offered for sale for human food, and every establishment where meat is manufactured into articles of human food or preserved, cured, canned or otherwise prepared for human food for the purpose of inspecting the same, and the stock therein contained, and whenever such meat, game, fish, poultry or the products thereof, are, upon such inspection and examination, found to be tainted, unwholesome or corrupted from any cause, or infected with any form of disease, the Health Officer shall condemn the same as unfit for human food and shall mark or mutilate the same, or make the fact of such condemnation and unfitness apparent, and shall immediately order the same, by notice in writing, to be removed from the premises within four (4) hours from the time of the service of the notice, and no person shall resist the entry and inspection by the Health Officer or fail to comply with the written notice.

(Prior code § 5550.2)

A. No person shall hold, offer, keep or expose for sale any meat, game, fish, poultry or any article of food manufactured therefrom, that is immature, in-nutritious, emaciated, tainted, decayed, putrid, unwholesome or infected with any disease, or corrupted from any cause whatsoever.

B. No person shall sell, hold, keep, offer or expose for sale the flesh, meat or any meat food product intended for food purposes of any calf that is less than four (4) weeks old at the time it is slaughtered or weighs less than sixty-five (65) pounds after the removal of the viscera, feet and head.

C. No person shall remove, mutilate or destroy the umbilical or naval cord of any calf or remove the same from the pelt, hide or skin of any calf that is offered, held or exposed for sale, and the removal, mutilization or destruction of the same shall be considered as prima facie evidence of the immaturity of such calf.

D. No person shall sell, hold, keep, offer or expose for sale any beef, veal, mutton, pork or meat food product unless such veal, mutton, pork or meat food product has been inspected by an agent of the Department of Agriculture of the State in accordance with the provisions of any existing law pertaining to the same, whether Federal, State or Municipal regulation, said inspection to be evidenced by a stamp bearing the words "California inspected and passed" or "U.S. inspected and passed", or by a stamp of an approved municipal meat inspection department.

E. No person shall sell, hold, keep or mingle any beef, veal, mutton, pork or meat food product thereof intended for purposes other than for human consumption, with any beef, veal, mutton, pork or meat food product intended for food purposes, in the same refrigerator, icebox, compartment, cooler, room or receptacle.

F. No person shall sell, hold, keep, offer or expose for sale any meat, fish, game, poultry or any product thereof, intended for human food, or carry, transport or convey the same in, upon, or along any street or open space unless the same is thoroughly enclosed and covered and protected from dirt, dust, flies and other insects; except, that the same may be allowed to remain uncovered and outside of a sanitary showcase or enclosure while the same is being prepared or cut up for market.

G. No person who does not have an established place of business in the City shall sell, offer or expose for sale any meats or meat food products, either fresh, smoked or processed, to any person other than wholesale meat dealers, retail meat dealers or operators of wholesale meat markets licensed to sell meat and meat food products in the City.

H. No person other than wholesale meat dealers, retail meat dealers, or operators of wholesale meat markets licensed to sell meat and meat food products in the City shall buy any meats or meat food products, either fresh, smoked or processed from any person who does not have an established place of business in the City.

I. No person shall sell, hold, keep, offer, or expose for sale, any hamburger or hamburg steak to which has been added any meat or substance other than the flesh of beef or beef suet, or to which has been added viscera, hearts, lungs, or other organs, or any preservative, coloring or any other substance, or which contains in excess of seventy percent (70%) moisture or thirty percent (30%) beef suet or fat.

J. No person owning, operating, managing or conducting any meat market, restaurant, delicatessen, butcher shop, or other food establishment, as defined in this Chapter, shall have, keep or store at such meat market, restaurant, delicatessen, butcher shop, or other food establishment, as defined in this Chapter, any beef, veal, mutton, pork or meat food product unless the same has been inspected by an agent of the Department of Agriculture of the State in accordance with the provisions of now existing laws pertaining to the same, whether Federal, State or Municipal regulations, said inspection to be evidenced by a stamp bearing the words "California inspected and passed," or "United States inspected and passed," or by a stamp of an approved municipal meat inspection department. The provisions of this Subsection shall include and apply to both wholesale and retail meat markets, restaurants, delicatessens, butcher shops or other food establishments.

(Prior code § 5550.3)

No person shall slaughter any animal or fowl except within an area properly zoned for such purpose.

(Prior code § 5550.4)

Every refrigeration plant where meat is stored shall be maintained and operated in a clean and sanitary manner and condition, and every such plant and all locker boxes, compartments and storage space therein shall be open at all time to inspection by the Department of Health.

(Prior code § 5550.5)

A. Every person operating a cold storage or refrigeration plant for the storage of meat shall:

1. So handle and store uninspected meat, possession of which is authorized by law, that the same will not at any time come into physical contact with inspected meat;

2. Provide separate chilling, cutting and aging room or rooms for such uninspected meat;

3. Handle or store all such uninspected meat in rooms used for that purpose exclusively;

4. Use separate cutting and other utensils and separate cutting blocks for the butchering and cutting of inspected and uninspected meats.

B. For the purposes of this Section, the word "room" means any space in a building separated from other areas by substantial partitions reaching to the ceiling or not less than seven feet (7') high.

(Prior code § 5550.6)

No person, owning or operating a cold storage or refrigeration plant shall permit any person to store or place in said cold storage or refrigeration plant any:

A. Horse meat;

B. Any meat, unless the same has been slaughtered under the supervision of a United States Government Inspector in accordance with the regulations relating to the inspection of meats as prescribed by the Department of Agriculture of the United States, or unless the same has been slaughtered in an official establishment under the supervision of the State Veterinarian in accordance with the laws of the State regulating the inspection of animals slaughtered for human food, or under the supervision of the Health Officer or a meat inspector of the City in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, without first procuring from the person storing said meat a written statement in triplicate setting forth:

1. The name and address of the person storing said uninspected meat,

2. The date of such storage,

3. That the person storing the same is the owner thereof,

4. A description of the slaughtered animal or animals (e.g., cattle, sheep, swine, etc.),

5. The quantity by weight of the meats so stored,

6. By whom slaughtered,

7. Where slaughtered,

8. The date the meat to be stored was obtained by the person storing same,

9. Whether the person storing the meat was the owner of the animal at the time it was slaughtered,

10. If not the owner of the meat at the time of slaughter, from whom it was obtained:

a. The address of the person from whom obtained;

b. Whether meat was purchased by the person storing same.

(Prior code § 5550.7)

The owner or operator of such cold storage or refrigeration plant shall forthwith file one (1) copy of the statement provided for in the preceding section with the Health Department, one (1) copy shall be forwarded forthwith to the Division of Livestock Identification of the Department of Agriculture of the State, and one (1) copy shall be retained in the files of the cold storage or refrigeration plant.

(Prior code § 5550.8)

A. No person, other than the owner thereof, shall remove any uninspected meat from any cold storage or refrigeration plant.

B. No owner or operator of a cold storage or refrigeration plant shall permit or allow anyone but the owner of uninspected meat to remove the same from the cold storage or refrigeration plant.

C. It shall not be a violation of the provisions of this Section, however, if uninspected meat stored in privately rented locker boxes is withdrawn in quantities not to exceed ten (10) pounds in any one (1) day by a member of the immediate family or household of the owner; provided, that the person so withdrawing the meat signs a certificate that the uninspected meat so withdrawn is for the personal use of the family or household of the owner.

(Prior code § 5550.9)

A. No person owning or operating a cold storage or refrigeration plant shall permit any person to withdraw any uninspected meat from the plant without first procuring from such person a written statement setting forth:

1. The name and address of the person withdrawing such uninspected meat;

2. The date of such withdrawal;

3. That the person withdrawing the same is the owner thereof, or a member of such owner's immediate family or household;

4. The quantity, by weight, of meat being withdrawn;

5. If withdrawn by a member of the owner's immediate family or household, that the same is for the personal use of the family or household of the owner.

B. Such statement shall be attached to and filed with the statement of deposit of the uninspected meat required by this Chapter to be retained in the office of the cold storage or refrigeration plant.

(Prior code § 5550.10)

No person shall boil offal, tallow, lard or any portion of an animal, except fresh from the animal and not decayed or putrid.

(Prior code § 5550.11)