Section 001-332-5 - ROOMS AND COMPARTMENTSA. Rooms and compartments used for edible products shall be separate and distinct from inedible products departments and from rooms where rabbits are slaughtered and skinned. Separate rooms shall be provided when required for conducting processing operations in a sanitary manner, and all rooms shall be of sufficient size to permit the installation of the necessary equipment for processing operations and the conduct of such operations in a sanitary manner.B. Rooms for separate operation. The establishment should have separate rooms for each of the following operations depending upon the various types of operations conducted, but, in no case, shall the receiving or holding of live rabbits or killing operations be permitted in rooms in which eviscerating operations are performed:(1) The receiving and feeding of live rabbits.(2) Killing and skinning operations.(3) Eviscerating, chilling, and packing operations for ready-to-cook rabbits.(4) Heat-treatment, cooling and packaging of rabbit products.(5) Inedible products departments and refuse room.C.Coolers and freezers of adequate size and capacity shall be provided to reduce the internal temperature of ready-to-cook rabbits prepared and otherwise handled in the establishment to 36 °F. within 24 hours.D. Refuse rooms shall be entirely separate from other rooms in the establishment and shall have tight fitting doors and be properly ventilated.E. Any storage and supply rooms shall be in good repair, kept dry, and maintained in a sanitary condition.F. The boiler room shall be a separate room to prevent it being a source of dirt and objectionable odors. Its entrance shall not be from any room where rabbits are prepared, processed, handled, and stored.G. Toilet rooms shall not open directly into rooms where rabbit products are exposed. They shall have self-closing doors and the room shall be ventilated to the outside of the building. 01-001 C.M.R. ch. 332, § 5