37-504 LICENSES -- DURATION AND REVOCATION.

TITLE 37

FOOD, DRUGS, AND OIL

CHAPTER 5

INSPECTION AND LICENSING OF DAIRY PRODUCT DEALERS AND ESTABLISHMENTS -- BABCOCK TESTS

37-504. Licenses -- Duration and revocation. Licenses shall be issued by the department for the period of one (1) year and shall expire on December thirty-first of each year issued, and may be revoked by the department after a hearing on ten (10) days’ notice to the licensee, if such licensee shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act. No such license shall be issued, and if issued may be revoked, in the following cases:

(a) If the milk or cream, or any product thereof, used in such manufacturing or processing operations, has reached an advanced state of fermentation or shows a stage of putrefactive fermentation;

(b) If the milk or cream or any product thereof be stored or kept in cans or other containers that have not been sterilized with boiling water or live steam after each delivery;

(c) If the utensils or apparatus that come in contact with milk or cream or the products thereof in the process of manufacture or processing are not thoroughly washed or sterilized by means of boiling water or live steam after each using;

(d) If the floor of the building or room in which the manufacturing or processing is conducted, or the product kept or stored, is so constructed or in such condition as to permit the flowing or soaking of water, milk or other liquids underneath such floor or among the interstices of such floor in such manner as to permit fermentation and decay to take place;

(e) If the condition of the floor in the building or room where the manufacturing or processing is conducted or the product stored or kept be such that it may not be readily kept free from dirt and filth;

(f) If drains are not provided that will convey refuse milk, water and sewage to a point at least fifty (50) yards distant from such building or room where the manufacturing or processing is conducted or the product stored;

(g) If any cesspool, privy vault, hog yard, slaughter-house, hen house, manure, or any decaying vegetable or animal matter that will emit or produce foul odors, shall be permitted to exist within such distance as will permit the odors therefrom to reach any such building or room where the manufacturing or processing is conducted or the product stored;

(h) If the building or room where the manufacturing or processing is conducted or the product stored is so constructed or so maintained as not to permit access thereto of sufficient light and air to secure good ventilation;

(i) If any room or building used in connection with the manufacturing or processing of the product, any insects, vermin or any species of animal life are permitted;

(j) If upon the floor of any room or building where the manufacturing or processing of such product is conducted, or upon the sides of walls thereof, any milk or its products or any other filth is allowed to accumulate, ferment or decay;

(k) If the body or wearing apparel of any person employed in the manufacturing and processing of the product, or coming in contact with the milk, cream or the product thereof while the manufacturing or processing is carried on shall be unclean, or shall not be washed from time to time with reasonable frequency;

(l) If there shall be permitted to exist any other cause or thing calculated or tending to render the milk or cream, or any product thereof, used or produced in such manufacturing or processing operations, unclean, impure and unhealthy.