Section 88.08. Egg handling rooms.

 

(1)   Egg washing and egg grading rooms.

(a) Egg washing and grading rooms shall be kept clean during washing, candling, grading, and packaging operations and shall be thoroughly cleaned at the end of each day's operations.

(b) Areas in which manual candling is done shall be dark enough to permit accurate determinations of egg quality.

(2)   Egg storage rooms.

(a) Egg storage areas shall be capable of maintaining eggs at ambient temperatures required under s. ATCP 88.18 , regardless of reasonably foreseeable external temperatures.

(b) Every egg storage area shall be equipped with one or more accurate temperature measuring devices to monitor compliance with temperature standards under s. ATCP 88.18 . The ambient temperature shall be monitored in one or more representative locations of the egg storage facility.

(c) An egg storage area shall be kept clean at all times. Storage areas, equipment and utensils, and stored eggs shall be arranged so that all parts of the egg storage area can be effectively cleaned and inspected.

(d) Eggs shall be stored such that the packaged eggs are protected from moisture, dust, and other contamination, and such that cleaning of the storage area, including the floor, is not impeded.

History: CR 14-037 : cr. Register April 2015 No. 712 , eff. 5-1-15.