A.
No person shall distribute, sell or offer for sale, or have in his
possession with intent to distribute, sell or offer for sale, within
the Township, any milk, cream, ice cream, ice cream mix, dry mix or
frozen custard unless such person shall have first obtained a license
therefor from the Health Office covering each premises or place from
which the same is distributed, sold or offered for sale, or intended
to be distributed, sold or offered for sale, and a license or licenses
covering each vehicle from which the same is sold or offered for sale
or intended to be sold or offered for sale.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
B.
A separate license is required and must be obtained for each place
of business used for any of the purposes set forth in this article
and for each vehicle used for any of the said purposes.
C.
Every license, tag or tags and every other evidence issued by the
Health Office as proof of the granting of such license or licenses,
together with the number of the license, shall be prominently displayed
in the premises so licensed and on each vehicle so licensed.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
D.
The Health Office may at any time refuse to issue a license to any
person who:
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
(1)
Has been convicted of violating any provisions of this article; or
(2)
Has failed or refused to comply with the lawful demands and requirements
of the Board relating to the conduct of any business regulated by
this chapter; or
(3)
Through negligence in the handling and preparation of milk, cream,
ice cream, ice cream mix or frozen custard, has disseminated or tended
to disseminate a contagious disease; or
(4)
Maintains his milk house, stable, milk plant or other place where
milk or milk products, ice cream, ice cream mix or frozen custard
are produced, handled, processed, stored, distributed, sold or offered
for sale, in any condition detrimental to health.
No milk or cream shall be sold, offered for sale, delivered
or distributed in the Township in containers other than those sealed
at the place of production or pasteurization except when used for
manufacturing purposes, commercial cooking and baking or when served
in restaurants or similar establishments, intended to be mixed or
to be used with coffee, tea or similar beverages, if such milk or
fluid product is derived by the restaurant owner or other operators
from original bottles or similar sealed containers containing not
more than one quart.
The use of milk pumps in the sale, delivery or distribution
of milk or cream in the Township is prohibited unless the pump so
used is specifically approved by the Board or unless pumps of a type
approved by the Board are so used.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
No milk shall be delivered, stored or transported at a temperature
exceeding 41° F.
A source of supply of milk or fluid milk products from which
there has been no regular sales in the Township for a period of six
months by a dealer so licensed to sell milk and/or fluid milk products
shall be considered as an unapproved source of supply. Before any
milk or fluid milk products may be sold, offered for sale or distributed
in the Township from such source of supply, it shall be necessary
for the Board to approve such source of supply.[1]
Every processor, bottler or manufacturer of milk, cream, ice
cream or other dairy foods (excepting hermetically sealed heat-sterilized
packages and butter and cured cheese) whose products are sold or distributed
in the Township shall, during the first week of each month or upon
request of the Board or the Health Officer, have samples of each of
their products collected from either plants, depots, distributing
points, vehicles or sales stops (retail or wholesale) and analyzed
chemically and bacteriologically by standardized methods in a laboratory
approved by the New Jersey State Department of Health.
A.
Fat and total solids content shall conform to or exceed the minimums
required by Article 1, of Chapter 10 of Title 24 of the Revised Statutes
of the State of New Jersey (1937) and as said Title may from time
to time be amended or supplemented and any other laws or regulations
of the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey. The ratio
of butterfat to other solids in fluid milk and cream and acidities
shall be the characteristics of normal fresh products.
B.
All milk intended for sale or distribution as fluid milk shall demonstrate,
when tested by standardized procedures by licensed personnel, that
it:
(1)
Is derived from healthy cattle, maintained free from udder infection.
(2)
Contains no greater than the following bacterial concentration per
milliliter sample as determined by the agar plate method:
(b)
Pasteurized milk.
[1]
Samples either in bulk or consumer package: 30,000 bacteria
per milliliter.
(d)
Pasteurized cream.
[1]
Sampled either in bulk or consumer package: 100,000 bacteria
per milliliter.
These bacterial standards are to be determined by the standard
agar plate test as set forth in the Standard Methods for the Examination
of Dairy Products of the American Public Health Association or any
other method approved and acceptable to the State Department of Health.
(3)
When identified as "pasteurized," demonstrate no dairy phosphatase
enzyme activity; when identified as "raw," demonstrate dairy phosphatase
enzyme activity characteristic of raw product.
(4)
When identified as "homogenized," demonstrate a difference of butterfat
content between the top four ounces and the balance of quart containers,
after 48 hours' refrigerated storage following processing, of not
more than 10%.
(5)
When identified as "sonic vibrator treated" (or its equivalent),
or when represented as "soft-curd," after 48 hours of refrigerated
storage following processing, demonstrate a curd tension of less than
30 grams.
A.
Consumer packages of pasteurized cream, flavored milk and drink,
frozen ice cream shall demonstrate bacterial concentrations of less
than 100,000 colonies per milliliter, no coliform and no dairy phosphatase
enzyme activity.
B.
Consumer packages of cultured milk and drink, other cultured products
and unripened cheese shall demonstrate not more than two coliforms
per milliliter or gram and no dairy phosphatase enzyme activity.
A.
No license shall be issued pursuant to § 373-44 hereof with respect to raw milk or raw cream excepting certified raw milk which shall conform to the standards now or hereafter prescribed by the State Sanitary Code.
B.
Consumer packages of pasteurized cream, flavored milk and drink,
frozen ice cream, cultured milk and drink, other cultured products
and unripened cheese, represented as "superior" by any symbol, device,
designation, representation or statement, shall be derived from milk
adhering to the standards for milk for "superior" pasteurized milk.
All pasteurized milk shall be coliform free.
A.
The production, handling and distribution of milk, cream and milk
products in the Township shall be done in accordance with any and
every law of the State of New Jersey affecting or controlling the
same and in accordance with all amendments or supplements to such
laws.
B.
All dairy sanitation and hygiene in connection with the milk, cream
and milk products sold or distributed in the Township shall be in
accordance with any and every law of the State of New Jersey affecting
or controlling the same and in accordance with all amendments or supplements
to such laws.
C.
All ice cream and other frozen dairy products sold, distributed or
offered for sale in the Township shall be made, frozen, handled and
processed in accordance with any and every law of the State of New
Jersey affecting or controlling the same and in accordance with all
amendments or supplements of such laws.
