Waters used in fish canning operations within
canneries shall conform to the following standards:
(a) Water satisfactory without treatment.
(1) For whole fish handling operations:
(A) Not subject to contamination with human
fecal discharges.
(B) Maximum of 7
E. coli organisms per cc.
(C)
Bacterial standard may be exceeded in not more than 20 percent of the
samples.
(2) For cut fish
handling operations:
(A) Not subject to
contamination with human fecal discharges.
(B) Maximum of 7 E. coli organisms per
cc.
(C) Bacterial standard may be
exceeded in not more than 5 percent of the
samples.
(b)
Waters satisfactory after treatment:
(1) For
whole fish handling operations:
(A) Not
subject to gross contamination with human fecal discharges before
treatment.
(B) Maximum of 3 E. coli
organisms per cc. after treatment.
(C) Bacterial standard may be exceeded in not
more than 20 percent of the samples.
(2) For cut fish handling operations:
(A) Not subject to gross contamination with
human fecal discharges before treatment.
(B) Maximum of 3 E. coli organisms per cc.
after treatment.
(C) Bacterial
standard may be exceeded in not more than 5 percent of the samples.
(D) The treatment shall include filtration or
the equivalent as one of the steps of the treatment process.
Samples for bacteriological analysis shall be
analyzed by an approved method set forth in the latest edition of the APHA
manual entitled "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage."
Those methods shall be employed which give the most specific reliable means of
measuring organisms having their origin in the intestines of man and other
warm-blooded animals.
