2 CSR 30-4.010 - Garbage Cooking and Feeding
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, partnership or corporation, except an individual who feeds to his/her own
swine only the garbage obtained from his/her household, to feed garbage
including all waste material, byproducts of a kitchen, restaurant or slaughter
house, every refuse accumulation of animal, fruit or vegetable matter, liquid
or otherwise, to swine unless that garbage has been heated to a temperature of
two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit (212° F) for thirty (30)
minutes.
(2) Before any person
shall engage in the feeding of garbage, other than garbage obtained from
his/her own household, to swine located in Missouri, an annual permit must be
obtained from the Missouri Department of Agriculture.
(A) Application blanks for permits may be
obtained upon request from the Missouri Department of Agriculture. An annual
fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be charged for each permit and is valid
July 1 through June 30 of each year.
(B) Upon receipt of the application and
license fee, a member of the Department of Agriculture promptly shall make an
inspection of the equipment and premises and if found in compliance with the
law and this rule, a permit shall be issued for a period of one (1)
year.
(3) The cooking
process shall be by one (1) or more of the following methods: wet steaming or
boiling in open vat, dry steaming or boiling in a jacketed kettle, steaming in
a pressure cylinder, steam boilers, or direct heating over open fire.
(4) Accurate, approved type recording
thermometers shall be used regardless of the manner of cooking.
(A) Daily cooking records are to be kept for
a period of ninety (90) days.
(B)
Recording thermometer charts shall have been maintained and stored properly,
and available at all times to a representative of the Missouri Department of
Agriculture or the United States Department of Agriculture.
(5) The location, arrangement and
relationship of garbage cooking, dumping and feeding facilities shall be such
as to eliminate any possibility of contamination with raw garbage of any pen,
lot or other enclosure in which swine are or may be kept. The final decision to
be made by an inspector representing the Missouri Department of Agriculture.
(A) Garbage shall be fed to swine on feeding
platforms and troughs constructed of concrete or other impervious materials.
Premises must be free of accumulations of unused garbage, waste materials or
manure. Approved rat and fly control measures must be practiced at all times as
a further means of preventing the spread of disease.
(B) All feeding platforms and troughs, trucks
and equipment shall be maintained in a sanitary condition at all times.
Adequate water supply shall be available for maintenance of equipment in a
sanitary condition.
(6)
Trucks, railroad cars or other vehicles transporting swine from garbage
feedlots within a quarantined area shall be cleaned thoroughly and disinfected
immediately after discharging swine and before using the truck, railroad car or
other vehicle for any other purpose and a certificate of inspection issued by
the deputy state veterinarian representative of the Missouri Department of
Agriculture or the United States Department of Agriculture; and the certificate
of inspection shall accompany the truck, railroad car or other vehicle at all
times. Cleaning and disinfection under supervision shall be required of all
trucks, railroad cars and vehicles when deemed necessary by the Missouri
Department of Agriculture or the United States Department of Agriculture. All
trucks, vehicles and containers used for the transportation of raw garbage to
cooking plants shall be constructed of, or lined with, impervious material
which does not permit the escape of any fragments of garbage or of liquids and
the garbage shall be covered in an acceptable and approved manner.
(7) Any authorized representative of the
Missouri Department of Agriculture or the United States Department of
Agriculture shall have the power to enter, at reasonable times, upon any
private or public property, regardless as to whether the owner or feeder is a
holder of a garbage cooking permit as defined in this rule or not, where
garbage is being fed for the purpose of inspection and investigating conditions
relating to the feeding of garbage. An authorized representative of the
Missouri Department of Agriculture or of the United States Department of
Agriculture may examine any records or memoranda pertaining to the feeding or
cooking of garbage fed to swine. Records shall be maintained of all purchases
and sales of swine and the names and addresses of owners of trucks hauling
swine into and from the garbage premises shall be available at all
times.
(8) No garbage-fed swine
shall be moved from any feedlot in the state except on permit issued by a
representative of the Missouri Department of Agriculture or of the United
States Department of Agriculture. This permit need not be presented to anyone
except a representative of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, the United
States Department of Agriculture, a member of the Missouri Highway Patrol or
the county sheriff.
(A) Swine which have been
fed raw garbage shall be quarantined promptly to the premises until moved to
slaughter on permit issued by a representative of the Missouri Department of
Agriculture or a representative of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
(B) Swine described in
subsection (8)(A) of this rule shall not qualify for a slaughter permit for at
least thirty (30) days from the date of last feeding of raw and/or inadequately
cooked garbage and then only when a competent veterinarian, representing the
Missouri Department of Agriculture or the United States Department of
Agriculture, has inspected the swine and certifies that the swine are
apparently free of any evidence of vesicular exanthema.
(C) Swine, described in subsection (8)(A) of
this rule, which have been fed raw garbage or inadequately cooked garbage, may
not enter a stockyards market which is under federal inspection or directly
into slaughtering establishments which are under federal inspection nor may
move interstate as required by regulations of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
(D) Swine which have
been fed raw garbage or inadequately cooked garbage shall be quarantined
immediately and shall be identified promptly and marked permanently under the
supervision of a representative of the Missouri Department of Agriculture or
the United States Department of Agriculture by means of an identification
eartag approved by the department securely placed in the right ear of each head
of swine and by means of diamond shaped ear punch mark placed in the left ear
of each head of swine so quarantined.
(9) No raw garbage shall be moved into or
from Missouri except upon special permit from and under the supervision of the
Missouri Department of Agriculture. No person shall, and the owner or feeder of
swine shall not, permit any raw garbage to be brought upon the premises where
swine are fed or quartered, unless the raw garbage is from the household, and
the household only, of the owner or feeder.
(10) No indemnity will be paid for swine
affected with vesicular exanthema that have been fed garbage in violation of
this act or this regulation. Indemnities will not be paid for swine affected
with vesicular exanthema unless garbage cooking facilities are equipped with an
approved type recording thermometer and provided that charts show no evidence
of tampering during the cooking process.
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