Reconditioning

1. All metal cans of food offered for sale or distribution must be essentially free from rust or pitting and dents, especially at rim, end double seams, or side seams. Leakers, springers, flippers, and swells must be deemed unfit for sale or distribution. Containers, including metal and glass containers with press caps, screw caps, pull rings, or other types of openings which have been in contact with water, liquid foam, or other deleterious substances, as a result of firefighting efforts, flood, sewer backups, or similar mishaps, must be deemed unfit for sale or distribution. 2. All metal containers of food, other than those mentioned in subsection 1, whose integrity has not been compromised and whose integrity would not be compromised by the reconditioning, and which have been in contact with water, liquid foam, or other deleterious substance as a result of flood, sewer backup, or other reasons, after thorough cleaning, must be subjected to sanitizing rinse of a concentration of one hundred ppm available chlorine for a minimum period of one minute, or must be sanitized by another method approved by the department. They must subsequently be treated to inhibit rust formation.