Sec. 21a-142. (Formerly Sec. 19-276). Cleansing of containers.
Sec. 21a-142. (Formerly Sec. 19-276). Cleansing of containers. Unclean bottles
shall be exposed to a three and one-half per cent alkali solution of which not less than
sixty per cent is caustic (sodium hydroxide), for a period of not less than five minutes
at a temperature of not less than one hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit or to an
equivalent cleansing and sterilizing process. The bottles shall be rinsed free of all caustic
in potable water. No bottle shall be used on which the rubber part of the stopper may
come into contact with the beverage. No person shall use as containers for beverages
the "Hutchinson plunger" bottles or reuse any cap, crown or stopper. Caps, crowns or
stoppers, before use, shall be kept in a device having a self-closing cover, and such caps,
crowns or stoppers shall be placed on the bottles with an automatic capping device. All
containers in which syrups, fruit juices, syrup fruit juices or flavors or other extracts are
stored or prepared shall be constructed of porcelain, glass, glaze-lined metal or stone
crocks, provided prepared syrups or extracts may be retained in the original containers
in which they were delivered. Such containers shall be covered at all times.
(1949 Rev., S. 3990.)
History: Sec. 19-276 transferred to Sec. 21a-142 in 1983.