No milk shall hereafter be produced, sold, exposed
for sale or delivered within the Township of Saddle Brook unless it
is produced and handled in accordance with the provisions and requirements
of this article.
No person shall hereafter engage in the sale
or exposure for sale of milk within the Township of Saddle Brook without
first having filed with the Division of Health a true and complete
statement of the locality from which all milk he may handle is produced,
a complete list of the persons from whom the said milk is purchased
and a complete list of the localities from which ice for cooling purposes
is obtained; and if at any time the place at which such milk is produced,
or the persons from whom the said milk is purchased, or the localities
from which the said ice is obtained shall be changed, the said Division
shall be notified immediately. On or about the 15th day of June and
December of each year and at any other time within three days of the
receipt of a request therefor, any person engaged in the sale of milk
in the Township of Saddle Brook shall furnish said Division with a
complete list of all persons to whom milk is regularly sold.
All premises wherein milk is produced or handled
for sale or distribution in the Township of Saddle Brook shall be
open to the Division for inspection at any time, and the owners of
cows from which said milk is produced shall permit a veterinarian
in the employ of the Division to examine said cows at any time.
[Added 3-23-1934; amended 12-30-1981 by Ord. No. 849]
No milk or cream shall hereafter be produced,
sold, exposed for sale or delivered within the Township of Saddle
Brook unless there shall first be obtained from the Division permit
so to do. The annual fee for such permit shall be $2 for each wagon
or vehicle used in the distribution and sale of milk and cream and
$5 for each place at or from which milk or cream is produced, sold
or exposed for sale, which fee shall be paid by the person, firm or
corporation conducting the business, and said permit may be revoked
if any person permitted to produce, sell or distribute milk or cream
by the Division shall violate any of the provisions of this article
or any of the rules and regulations which from time to time may be
promulgated by the Division. The application for such permit shall
be in such form as may be designated by the Division.
Cows shall be stabled under light, dry and well-ventilated
conditions, and the stables shall conform in all respects to the requirements
hereinafter set forth, namely:
A.
Any barn used as a cow stable shall be tightly sealed
overhead, shall be entirely partitioned off from the rest of the barn
and shall not be used for the storage of farm utensils nor for any
other purpose.
B.
The walls and ceilings of such stable, not otherwise
treated in a manner approved by the Division, shall be whitewashed
at least every six months.
C.
Stables shall have at least 20 square feet of unobstructed
window glass per 500 cubic feet of air space, the windows to be arranged
so as to light all portions of the stable effectively.
D.
Each cow shall have at least three feet in width of
floor space when fastened or stanchioned, and in all cases where no
adequate or artificial means of ventilation is provided, each animal
shall have an air space of at least 600 cubic feet.
E.
All stables shall be provided with tight dry floors,
and the manure pipes or urine gutters shall be watertight and shall
be thoroughly cleaned at least twice each day.
F.
No manure, garbage or other putrescible matter shall
be allowed within 100 feet of any cow stable, milk house or cooling
room, and the drainage from said building shall be such that no liquid
waste shall collect within that distance.
A.
No milk shall be sold or offered for sale or distributed
in the Township of Saddle Brook except from cows in good health nor
unless the cows from which it is obtained have within one year been
examined by a veterinarian whose competency is vouched for by the
State Veterinarian Association of the state in which the herd is located
and a certificate signed by such veterinarian has been filed with
the Division of Health, stating the number of cows in each herd that
are free from disease. This examination shall include tuberculin tests,
and charts showing the reaction of each individual cow shall be filed
with the Division. All cows which react shall be removed from the
premises at once if the sale of milk is to continue, and no cows shall
be added to the herd until a certificate of satisfactory tuberculin
tests of said cows has been filed with the Division.
B.
Cows shall at all times be kept in a clean condition,
and their udders shall be washed or wiped immediately before milking.
C.
No milk shall be obtained from any cow which has calved
within 10 days nor from any cow within 30 days before the normal time
of calving.
D.
All milk shall be obtained from cows fed and watered
under the following conditions: All feed given to such cows shall
be sweet and wholesome. The use of distilled slops or fermented grain
as feed shall be prohibited, and the presence of such slops or fermented
grain on any dairy premises shall be considered sufficient for the
exclusion of the milk from such dairies from the sale or delivery
in the Township of Saddle Brook. Water supplied to cows shall be pure
and free from all contamination from stable or household waste, but
no spring or shallow well in or adjoining any stable yard shall be
used for watering said cows.
A.
All milkers and other attendants handling milk in
any dairy shall be personally clean when entering upon their duties
connected with the dairy, and their hands and outer garments must
be clean.
B.
Utensils used for the collection and transportation
of milk shall, before being used, be thoroughly washed with pure water
and soda or soap or by some other approved means and then sterilized
by steam.
C.
As soon as milk is drawn from a cow and before straining,
it must be removed from the stable to a separate room, where it shall
be strained immediately. It shall then within 45 minutes of the time
of milking, and in a building separate from said stable, be cooled
to 50º F. or below by some method approved by the Division. The
above-mentioned cooling room shall be properly ventilated and lighted,
shall be used for no other purpose than that indicated above, shall
at all times be kept in a clean condition and shall not be connected
with any stable, barn or dwelling.
D.
All milk shall be delivered in bottles, but no milk
in partially filled bottles shall be sold or offered for sale. No
tickets shall be used in connection with the sale or delivery of milk.
No bottles shall be filled, capped or recapped outside such dairy
building regularly used for that purpose, and said bottling room shall
at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Milk bottles
shall be used for no other purpose than as receptacles for milk.
E.
If at any time any person or persons having any connection
with a dairy or the handling of milk, or any resident member of the
family of any person so connected, shall be stricken with cholera,
smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, typhus, typhoid, scarlet fever,
measles, tuberculosis or any other communicable disease that may hereafter
be declared by the Division to be dangerous to the public health,
notice shall be given to said Division immediately by the owner or
owners of said dairy, and said Division may order the sale of such
milk discontinued for such time as it may deem necessary. No milk
produced from a dairy of any person failing to give notice shall hereafter
be sold or exposed for sale or delivered in the Township of Saddle
Brook, until special permission therefor has been granted by said
Division.
A.
Samples of milk shall be furnished the Division by
any producer or dealer at any time upon proper payment therefor.
B.
Milk supplies found to contain over 1,000 bacteria
per cubic centimeter on two or more different days will be excluded
from the Township of Saddle Brook until satisfactory evidence is shown
that the milk may be reasonably expected to contain less than that
number of bacteria.
C.
No pasteurized milk shall be sold in the Township
of Saddle Brook unless it is conspicuously labeled "Pasteurized";
said label shall also state the degree of temperature (and length
of exposure at that temperature) and date of pasteurization.
D.
No substance or compound shall be added to any milk
which is to be exposed or offered for sale, and no substance shall
be extracted therefrom.
E.
No milk shall be sold in the Township of Saddle Brook
which is obtained from a dealer who handles a part of the supply not
approved by the Division, and no person shall deliver or offer for
sale in the Township of Saddle Brook any milk unless the entire supply
which he handles complies with the requirements hereinbefore set forth,
unless satisfactory evidence is given the Division that the two supplies
are kept separate.
F.
No milk shall be delivered, stored or transported
at a temperature exceeding 50º F.
G.
No ice which is obtained from sources which are so
situated that it may become contaminated shall be used for cooling
milk.
No cream shall be sold, exposed for sale or
delivered in the Township of Saddle Brook unless it shall be produced
and handled in accordance with the requirements hereinbefore set forth
for the production and handling of milk.