Section 1180.28 - Operations at Collection Centers(a) A facility that serves as a temporary storage site for dead animals, animal material, packinghouse waste and/or inedible kitchen grease shall be considered a collection center, as defined in section 19204 of the Food and Agricultural Code, if at least one of the following conditions exist: (1) Materials are kept overnight or longer.(2) It is a drop-off site of carcasses or other animal material from outside sources.(3) It receives carcasses or other animal material from multiple sources.(4) Hides or skins are removed from carcasses before delivery to a licensed renderer.(b) A public entity that operates a facility intended only for the temporary storage of one hundred and sixty-five (165) gallons or less (at any one time) of inedible kitchen grease derived from and delivered by households before delivery of such inedible kitchen grease to a licensed renderer or to a facility or operation authorized to receive and process inedible kitchen grease pursuant to the Integrated Waste Management Act (Public Resources Code 40000 et seq.) is not considered to be "in the business of operating a collection center" for the purpose of Food and Agricultural Code section 19300.5 and is not subject to the requirements of this section.(c) Animal material shall be removed from collection centers as rapidly as necessary to prevent a nuisance or a health hazard to people or animals and shall be transported only to licensed renderers.(d) Carcasses shall not be skinned prior to delivery to a licensed renderer unless the carcasses have been denatured with crude carbolic acid or cresylic disinfectant or other agents approved by the Department, except when the collection center is owned and operated by a renderer to which the skinned carcasses are delivered in vehicles owned and operated or controlled by the renderer. The denaturant shall be applied by injection or by uniformly and deeply cutting the muscle tissue and applying the denaturant to the slashed carcass. The denaturant shall be deposited in all portions of the carcass to the extent necessary to preclude its use for food purposes. The Branch Chief may approve other methods of applying denaturant when he finds that the methods will prevent the use of dead animals for food purposes.(e) When skinning of carcasses is conducted at a collection center, deliveries of carcasses and/or packinghouse waste from the collection center shall only be to rendering plants specified in the license application. Transportation of these inedible animal materials shall be in trucks owned by or under the control of an operator of a licensed collection center or licensed rendering plant. Transportation from a collection center to a rendering plant shall be by the most direct route that is practical and there shall be no unloading except at the specified rendering plant. Transportation of the material shall in all respects be handled in the same manner and under the same restrictions as for thetransportation of dead animals as specified in sections 1180.13 through 1180.19 of this subchapter.(f) Equipment that could be used for skinning, eviscerating, cutting up or processing meat shall not be brought into or stored in any collection center unless the licensee has been approved by the Department to skin carcasses that are denatured as specified in subsection (d) and (e) of this section.(g) All rooms, compartments, places and equipment used for storing or handling any dead animal carcasses and/or packinghouse waste shall be kept clean.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 3, § 1180.28
1. Repealer and new section filed 3-7-2012; operative 4-6-2012 (Register 2012, No. 10). Note: Authority cited: Sections 407, 19380 and 19385, Food and Agricultural Code. Reference: Sections 19204, 19300.5, 19301 and 19302, Food and Agricultural Code.
1. Repealerand new section filed 3-7-2012; operative 4-6-2012 (Register 2012, No. 10).