6.5 Where the registration of an establishment has been suspended or cancelled, the operator of the establishment shall immediately surrender the certificate of registration to an inspector.

• 7. (1) In every packing plant

  • (a) the land and buildings comprising the plant,

  • (b) the lavatories, dressing rooms and washrooms in the plant, and

  • (c) all containers used in the plant

  shall be clean and sanitary.

• (2) Every packing plant shall be so designed and constructed that

  • (a) no odours or fumes from any lavatory, sink or cesspool will pervade any room or area in which maple products are prepared, packed or stored; and

  • (b) no maple product will come in contact with anything in the plant that might injuriously affect its quality.

• (3) No person who is suffering from a communicable disease, is a known carrier of a communicable disease or has an infected wound or open lesion shall work in any area of a packing plant where there is a danger of contaminating maple products or maple product contact surfaces with micro-organisms of public health significance.

• (3.1) Every person engaged in handling or processing maple products shall maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness while on duty and wear and keep clean appropriate clothing including suitable hair covering in order to prevent contamination of maple products.

• (4) No person shall smoke or chew tobacco in any part of a packing plant in which maple products are prepared.

• (5) All equipment used in the operations of a sugar bush operator who prepares and grades maple products shall be clean and sanitary.

8. All maple products that are prepared or graded in a packing plant shall be prepared, packed and stored in a sanitary manner.

9. Maple syrup shall be packed as required by this Part as a condition to application or use of a grade name in respect of that syrup.

• 10. (1) Every container that is

  • (a) marked with a grade name, or

  • (b) shipped outside the province in which it was produced

  shall be clean and sound.

• (2) Every container

  • (a) of maple syrup that

    • (i) has a capacity of five litres or less, and

    • (ii) is marked with a grade name, and

  • (b) of maple sugar that

    • (i) has a capacity of five kilograms or less, and

    • (ii) is exported out of Canada or sent or conveyed from one province to another

  shall be new.

• (3) Maple syrup marked with a grade name shall be packed in a container that is of a container size set out in Schedule V.I.

• (4) Maple sugar shall not be packed in a container for export out of Canada or for sending or conveying from one province to another unless the net weight of the sugar in the container

  • (a) does not exceed 125 g; or

  • (b) is equal to

    • (i) 250 g,

    • (ii) 375 g,

    • (iii) 500 g,

    • (iv) 750 g,

    • (v) 1 kg, or

    • (vi) any multiple of 1 kg.

• (5) For the purposes of this section, the net quantity of maple syrup in a container shall be determined by the method described in Schedule V.

• (6) Every container of maple syrup or maple sugar marked with a grade name shall

  • (a) be filled to at least 90 per cent of its capacity; and

  • (b) contain at least the net quantity of maple syrup or maple sugar that is marked on its label.

• (7) Every container of maple syrup shall be capable of being securely closed by means of a screw-cap, friction lid or hermetically sealed lid, bung or similar device.

• (8) and (9) [Revoked, SOR/81-577, s. 4]