Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61821. Section 61821.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
ARTICLE 2. Definitions [61821. - 61839.]
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC 2.
in effectCal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61822. Section 61822.
“Board” means any advisory board created as authorized in this chapter.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61823. Section 61823.
“Bulk market milk” means market milk which has not been pasteurized or packaged in bottles, cartons, dispenser cans, or other consumer packages, and is handled or delivered, in bulk, in tanks, cans, or other bulk containers.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61824. Section 61824.
“Consumer” means any person that purchases market milk, or any dairy product for consumption.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61825. Section 61825.
“Dairy product” or “milk product” includes any product manufactured from milk or any derivative or product of milk.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61826. Section 61826.
“Handler” means any person who, as owner, agent, broker, or intermediary, either directly or indirectly, receives, purchases, or otherwise acquires ownership, possession, or control of market milk in unprocessed or bulk form from a producer, a producer-handler, or another handler for the purpose of manufacture, processing, sale, or other handling, regardless of whether such market milk is produced within or outside this state.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61827. Section 61827.
“Market cream” means cream, as defined in this code, and any combination of cream and milk, or any fluid product of milk or cream sold under any trade name whatsoever, which complies with all of the following requirements:
(a)
Is not packaged in hermetically sealed containers.
(b)
Conforms to the health and sanitary regulations of the place where it is sold or disposed of for human consumption.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61828. Section 61828.
“Market milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32510 and has the same meaning as “restricted use market milk” as defined in Section 32516.5. Unless the context otherwise indicates, “market milk” includes market cream, the components and derivatives of market milk, and dairy products manufactured from market milk or its components and derivatives.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61829. Section 61829.
“Market skim milk” means skim milk, as defined in this code, that is derived from market milk and conforms to the health and sanitary regulations of the place where sold or disposed of for human consumption.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61830. Section 61830.
“Marketing area” is any area within this state declared to be such in the manner that is prescribed in this chapter.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61831. Section 61831.
“Milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32511.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61831.5. Section 61831.5.
“Milk used for manufacturing purposes” means all milk used for those products defined in Part 3 (commencing with Section 36601) of Division 15.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61832. Section 61832.
“Milk plant” means any place, structure, or building where a handler receives market milk.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61833. Section 61833.
“Packaged market milk” or “packaged market cream” means market milk or market cream respectively, which is packaged in cartons, bottles, dispenser cans, or other consumer packages, for sale to wholesale customers, or consumers.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61834. Section 61834.
“Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, nonprofit cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, or any other business unit or organization.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61835. Section 61835.
“Processing” means receiving, pasteurizing, and packaging market milk. It includes the manufacturing of milk products from market milk.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61836. Section 61836.
“Producer” means any person that produces market milk from five or more cows in conformity with the applicable health regulations of the place in which it is sold, and whose bulk market milk is received, acquired, or handled by any handler or any nonprofit association of producers. It includes the nonprofit cooperative associations described in Article 3 (commencing with Section 61871) of this chapter in the transactions in which such article provides that the associations are producers.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61837. Section 61837.
“Producer-handler” means any person that is both a producer and a handler of market milk. For the purposes of this chapter a producer-handler is a producer in any transaction which involves the sale or delivery of bulk market milk which was produced by him to a handler or to any nonprofit cooperative association of producers, and is a handler in any transaction which involves the purchase, acquisition or receipt by him of market milk, the pasteurization or packaging of market milk, or the sale or delivery of packaged market milk to any person.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61838. Section 61838.
“Stabilization and marketing plan” means any plan formulated and made effective by the director within the legislative standards provided by this chapter. It includes, among other things, the establishing of prices to be paid by handlers for any or all of the various classes of market milk.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61839. Section 61839.
“Wholesale customer” means any person except a distributor that buys packaged milk, cream, or any dairy product for resale to consumers or to other wholesale customers.
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