Ordinance 3925 - Laserfiche WebLink

• Section 11. RESTAURANTS, HOTELS AND INSTITUTIONS MUST HANDLE INSPECTED MEATS. It shall be unlawful for any person operating or maintaining any hotel, restaurant or institution to procure or have in his possession, any meat except inspected meat. Section 12. SAUSAGE TO BE LABELED. It shall be 1ua1awful for any person to sell or dispose of sausage in the manufacture of which any meat other than beef, pork, veal or mutton is used, unless the manufactured product is so labeled as to plainly designate the kind or kinds of meat used therein. "Hamburger" shall consist of ground beef containing no offal or no added water and no fats other than the natural fat contained in the lean beef from which the product is made. Heart, liver, tongue, tripe and head meats, excluding cheeks, shall be deemed offal within the meaning of this section. Section 13. ADULTERATED MEAT. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or expose for sale, to advertise for sale, or to manufacture for sale or consumption any fresh meat which has been, or is adulterated. Fresh meat or fish shall be deemed adulterated when it contains any of the following: 1. Cereal or filler. 2. Added coloring matter 3. A greater amount of water than the meats from which it is prepared contained in their fresh condition; except pork or link sausage may contain three per cent added moisture. 4. Antiseptic or preservative or alterative other than salt, sugar or spices. 5. Or, if designated as pork sausage, when it contains meat or meat products other than pork. Section 13 a. TREATMENT OF MEAT, FOWL OR FISH BY ANTIBIOTICS. Meat, chicken, ducks, geese, turkeys or other fowl, rabbits or fish may be treated by an antibiotic if the antibiotic is first approved by the Health Officer and such products are labeled or marked to show clearly and legibly the trade name or process used. Any label or mark so placed upon said products by the processor shall not be removed from the carcass or packaged parts of the same by any person other than the consumer. Section 14. HAMBURGER OR GROUND BERM'. The word "Hamburger or Ground Beef" as used in this ordinance shall be deemed to mean and include only ground beef containing no offal, filler, or preservative of any kind, or more than thirty (30%) per cent fat. (Heart) liver, tongue, and tripe shall be offal within the meaning of this section). It shall be unlawful to designate as "hamburger" or "ground beef" any meat or meat product sold, offer for sale, advertised for sale, or disposed of, unless such meat or meat product complies with the foregoing definition. It shall be unlawful to use any decomposed, contaminated, or unwholesome beef in any meat product offered for sale sold or advertised as "hamburger".