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...(A) General permit to operate or general permit means a type of permit developed by the director for one or more categories of facilities as facility is defined in rule 901:10-1-01 of the Administrative Code. (1) The director shall develop general permits to operate that relate to the following areas: (a) The facilities involve the same or substantially similar operations including, but not limited to, the same typ...

...A general permit to operate shall be effective from the date of issuance for a fixed term not to exceed five years. Holders of certificates of coverage under this permit shall comply with the following specified conditions and limitations. (A) Applicability. "Concentrated animal feeding operation" or "CAFO" has the same meaning as division (F) of section 903.01 of the Revised Code and refers to those operations that...

...(A) A person may submit a complaint to the director of the Ohio department of agriculture related to a concentrated animal feeding facility or to a discharge from an animal feeding operation, as defined in 40 CFR 122.23 (2012). (B) The complaint may be made orally or in writing. (1) Complaint in writing: If the complaint is made in writing, the person making the complaint must sign and date...

...(A) Applicability. This rule applies to concentrated animal feeding operations, concentrated animal feeding facilities, and major concentrated animal feeding facilities. (B) An agent or employee of the department shall conduct inspections and determine if the owner or operator is not in compliance with section 903.02, 903.03, or 903.04 or division (A) of section 903.07 of the Revised Code, the terms and conditions ...

...(A) Applicability. This rule applies to concentrated animal feeding facilities and certified livestock managers. (B) The director shall conduct inspections and investigations, when applicable, to determine if the owner or operator of a concentrated animal feeding facility or certified livestock manager is not in compliance with section 903.02, section 903.03, division (A) of section 903.07 or se...

...(A) Civil penalty rules applicability. For purposes of this rule, facility means concentrated animal feeding operations, concentrated animal feeding facilities, and major concentrated animal feeding facilities. (B) Consolidation. Each and every day of violation of any rule or statute of Chapter 903. of the Revised Code is a separate and distinct offense, and in cases of continuing violations, each day's continuanc...

...(A) Civil penalty rules applicability. This rule applies to concentrated animal feeding facilities, and certified livestock managers. (B) Consolidation. Each and every day of violation of any rule or statute of Chapter 903. of the Revised Code is a separate and distinct offense, and in cases of continuing violations, each day's continuance is a separate and distinct violation unless otherwise determined by the dep...

...As used in divisions 901:3 and 901:11 of the Administrative Code and the materials incorporated under rule 901:11-1-02 of the Administrative Code: (A) "Director" means the director of agriculture or an official, employee, or contractor of the department of agriculture designated by the director of agriculture. (B) "Drug" means: (1) Articles recognized in the official "United States Pharmacopoeia," ...

...(A) Sections 1 to 14 and appendices B to T of the PMO, except as deleted or amended in this chapter, are adopted as rules of the department of agriculture, state of Ohio, and incorporated into this chapter by reference. (B) Whenever used in the materials incorporated into this chapter under paragraph (A) of this rule: (1) "Appendix B" shall be read as "rules 901:11-4-01 to 901:11-4-13 of the ...

...(A) Sections 1 to 14 and appendices B to T of the PMO, except as deleted or amended in this chapter, are adopted as rules of the department of agriculture, state of Ohio, and incorporated into this chapter by reference. (B) Whenever used in the materials incorporated into this chapter under paragraph (A) of this rule: (1) Ellipsis shall refer to the "State of Ohio"; (2) "Ordinance" shall be rea...

...(A) The following components of the PMO are deleted: (1) In Section 1. Definitions, paragraph YY, "Regulatory Agency," is deleted in its entirety; (2) In Section 2. "Adulterated or Misbranded Milk or Milk Products," "Administrative Procedures" and its following "Note" is deleted in its entirety; (3) Section 3. "Permits", is deleted in its entirety. (4) In Section 5. "Inspection of ...

...(A) The following components of the PMO are deleted: (1) In Section 1. Definitions, paragraph YY, "Regulatory Agency," is deleted in its entirety; (2) In Section 2. "Adulterated or Misbranded Milk or Milk Products," "Administrative Procedures" and its following "Note" is deleted in its entirety; (3) Section 3. "Permits", is deleted in its entirety. (4) In Section 5. "Inspection of ...

...As used in rules 901:11-2-01 to 901:11-2-44 of the Administrative Code: (A) "Cleaned-in-place" and its acronym "CIP" means the procedure by which sanitary pipelines or pieces of dairy equipment are mechanically cleaned in place by circulation. (B) "Dairy farm" and "farm" means a place or premise where one or more lactating animals (cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, or other hooved mammals) ar...

...(A) Acceptability of raw milk from each producer shall be based on a visual examination for appearance and odor or by an acceptable test procedure for bacterial count, somatic cell count, and drug residue test as specified in rules 901:11-2-03 to 901:11-2-05 of the Administrative Code. (B) The appearance of acceptable raw milk shall be normal and free of excessive coarse sediment. The milk shall ...

...(A) During at least four separate months within any consecutive six month period, each dairy plant or co-operative association shall collect and submit producer raw milk samples to a laboratory for examination to determine the somatic cell count of the samples. Samples shall be representative of all raw milk shipped from bulk tanks and received in cans. (B) The somatic cell standard for accep...

...(A) A manufacture milk producer shall do one of the following: (1) In the case of manufacture milk that is stored in cans on a manufacture milk producer's farm, cool the milk to and store it at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit (sixteen degrees Celsius) or lower within two hours after completion of the milking; or (2) In the case of manufacture milk that is stored in a bulk tank on t...

...(A) No person shall be issued a producer or processor license or registration unless they are in compliance with rules 901:11-2-01 to 901:11-2-44 of the Administrative Code. (B) The licensed dairy farm or dairy plant shall be inspected annually after the initial licensing inspection. (C) Any license or registration issued under this rule may be denied, suspended, or revoked as specified in parag...

...All equipment and utensils necessary for the manufacture of cheese and related products shall meet the same general requirements as outlined in rule 901:11-2-22 of the Administrative Code. In addition, for certain other equipment the following requirements shall be met: (A) Bulk starter vats shall be constructed of stainless steel or equally corrosion-resistant metal and shall be in good repair, equi...

...As used in rules 901:11-3-01 to 901:11-3-11 of the Administrative Code: (A) "Critical limit" means the maximum or minimum value to which a physical, biological or chemical parameter must be held to prevent, eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the occurrence of a food safety hazard. (B) "Critical control point" means a point, step or procedure in food processing at which appropriate meas...

...As used in rules 901:11-3-01 to 901:11-3-09 of the Administrative Code: (A) "21 C.F.R." means Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (April 2023). (B) "Drug" means: (1) Articles recognized in the official United States pharmacopoeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official national formulary; (2) Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, trea...

...(A) Raw milk or milk products intended for use in the manufacturing of frozen desserts shall not be accepted by the manufacturer of frozen desserts unless the milk and milk products meet the following standards at the time of delivery and are maintained by the manufacturer of frozen desserts through pasteurization: (1) Temperature at forty-five degrees Fahrenheit (seven degrees Celsius) or less; ...

...(A) Every frozen dessert manufacturer shall conduct, or have conducted for it, an analysis to determine whether there are food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur in conjunction with the manufacturing of frozen dessert and to identify the critical control points and preventive measures that apply to control those hazards. The analysis shall include food safety hazards which can occu...

...(A) No person shall produce, provide, sell, offer, expose for sale, or have in their possession with the intent to sell, any milk or milk product which is adulterated or misbranded. Any adulterated or misbranded milk or milk products may be impounded by the director and disposed of in accordance with applicable laws or regulations. (B) Upon notification by the director that a milk or milk product contains an adulte...

...(A) Prior to use, the milk hauler or weigher, sampler, or tester (hauler/sampler) shall clean and sanitize product contact surfaces of all multi-use containers, tanks, equipment, and utensils used in the sampling, testing and transportation of milk and milk products. Additionally, bulk milk transport tanks and related multi-use equipment shall be cleaned and sanitized after the transport of manufacture milk or the co...

..."Grade "A" dry milk products" means milk products which have been manufactured under the dry milk provisions of the pasteurized milk ordinance which has been adopted in rule 901:11-1-01 of the Administrative Code.