O. Reg. 502/01: FOOD PREMISES

 

ONTARIO regulation 502/01

made under the

health protection and
promotion act

Made: December 14, 2001
Filed: December 18, 2001
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: January 5, 2002

Amending Reg. 562 of R.R.O. 1990

(Food Premises)

1. Sections 40 and 41 of Regulation 562 of the Revised Regu­lations of Ontario, 1990 are revoked and the following substituted:

40. (1) At a food premise where meat is sold, the only meat permitted to be on the premises is meat that has been obtained from an animal inspected under the Meat Inspection Act or the Meat Inspection Act (Canada) and that has been stamped and labelled under one of those Acts.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a food premise where meat is sold may have uninspected meat on the premises for the purpose of custom-cutting, wrapping and freezing it for its owner if,

(a) the uninspected meat is stored so that it does not come into contact with inspected meat;

(b) each quarter or larger section of the carcass bears a tag showing the name and address of the owner of the uninspected meat; and

(c) each quarter or larger section of the carcass is legibly stamped “Consumer Owned, Not for Sale” on each of the primal cut areas using ink made from non-toxic edible ingredients and in letters at least 1.25 centimetres in height.

(3) Despite subsection (1), a food premise located at the Sioux Lookout Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre may have on the premises uninspected meat from wild moose, wild duck, wild goose, wild caribou, wild muskrat, wild rabbit, wild deer, wild beaver, wild elk and wild muskox if the animal or bird was killed in the course of hunting and if the following conditions are met:

1. The uninspected meat is handled, prepared, processed and stored for the sole purpose of serving it to patients, visitors and staff at the Health Centre.

2. The uninspected meat is handled, prepared, processed and stored so that it does not come into contact with other food before the other food is served.

3. Patients, visitors and staff at the Health Centre are informed in writing each time before they are served uninspected meat that the meat has not been inspected under the Meat Inspection Act or the Meat Inspection Act (Canada) and that meat that has been inspected is available for consumption.

4. Patients, visitors and staff at the Health Centre are informed in writing that meat that has been inspected under the Meat Inspection Act or the Meat Inspection Act (Canada) is always available to be served on the premises.

41. In a food premise, utensils, equipment and food contact surfaces used in connection with uninspected meat shall be washed and sanitized in accordance with sections 73, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 81, whichever apply in the circumstances, before being used in connection with any other food, including inspected meat.