ARTICLE 4. Containers for Particular Products [34591. - 34596.]

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC 4.

in effect

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 34591. Section 34591.

Except as otherwise provided in this article, it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any market milk, skim milk, flavored milk, flavored dairy drink, buttermilk, or cultured buttermilk to the retail trade, unless the product is contained in a standard milk bottle or in a single service container which has been mechanically filled and capped or sealed in a milkroom which is properly designed and equipped as approved by the director. The pouring lip of standard milk bottles used to package market milk and milk products sold at retail shall be covered at the time of capping or closure to at least its largest diameter by the cap or cover. A single service container shall meet the specifications of the United States Public Health Service Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance Recommendations.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 34592. Section 34592.

Market milk which is served by any school, hospital, hotel, boardinghouse, restaurant, soda fountain, lunch counter, or other places where food or drink is served to the public, shall be served in the individual service bottle or container which has been filled and capped or sealed in a milk room, properly designed and equipped as approved by the director, the cap or seal of which shall not be removed except in the presence of the consumer or patron. This section does not: (a) Apply to market cream or half-and-half. (b) Prohibit the serving of homogenized market milk from a milk dispensing device which has been approved for such use by the director pursuant to Section 34594. (c) Apply to any private boarding school which is licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code which is also a private full-time day school within the meaning of Section 48222 of the Education Code. (d) Apply to any fraternity, sorority, dormitory or eating club, the existence of which is authorized or approved by the board of trustees or other governing agency of a college or university. (e) Apply to any children’s center, day care program, or preschool program, as such terms are used in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 8200) of Part 6 of the Education Code.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 34593. Section 34593.

Market milk or the fluid derivative of market milk which is used in the preparation of milk shakes or other mixed milk drinks shall be dispensed or poured from standard milk bottles or single service containers which have been filled and sealed or capped in a milk products plant. This section does not prohibit the use of homogenized market milk or flavored dairy drinks drawn from a milk dispensing device that is approved pursuant to Section 34594 in the preparation of milk shakes or other mixed milk drinks.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 34594. Section 34594.

Homogenized market milk may be sold and served from and by the use of a milk-dispensing device which has been approved for such use by the director. Any such milk-dispensing device shall be installed and located in a place and manner which are acceptable to the local health authority.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 34595. Section 34595.

Homogenized market milk, which is served from a milk-dispensing device that has been approved for that use by the director, shall be dispensed directly from the dispensing device into the glass or other container from which the customer drinks the milk. It shall be served in minimum quantities of eight ounces in each such glass or container, except that individual servings of less than eight ounces may be served with children’s or junior meals which are sold in a restaurant, as defined in Section 28522 of the Health and Safety Code.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 34596. Section 34596.

The gift, sale, loan, or furnishing in any manner of any milk-dispensing device is subject to Article 4 (commencing with Section 61371) of Chapter 1 of, and Article 9 (commencing with Section 6204l) of Chapter 2 of, Part 3, Division 20 of this code.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026