Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61301. Section 61301.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
ARTICLE 1. Definitions [61301. - 61317.]
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC 1.
in effectCal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61302. Section 61302.
“Bulk milk” or “bulk cream” means milk or cream, respectively, which has not been pasteurized or packaged in bottles, cartons, dispenser cans, or other consumer packages, and which is handled or delivered, in bulk, in tanks, cans, or other bulk containers.
For this purpose, skim milk or cream which has been preheated or pasteurized not more than once, as provided in Section 34004 or 34005 of this code, and is handled or delivered in bulk is not pasteurized.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61303. Section 61303.
“Consumer” means any person that buys milk, cream, or any dairy product for consumption and not for resale.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61304. Section 61304.
“Cream” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32504.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61305. Section 61305.
“Dairy product” means any product classified as Class 1 or Class 2 under Section 61932, 61933, or 61936; any frozen product or frozen product mix classified as Class 3 under Section 61934; any product classified as Class 4b under subdivision (b) of Section 61935; butter; pasteurized process cheese; and any filled product or any imitation milk product in which the use of market milk or any component of market milk is required by Section 38925. This definition applies to the designated products whether processed or manufactured in the state or outside of the state and irrespective of the classification of those products at a point of origin outside the state.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61306. Section 61306.
(a)
“Distributor” means any handler, as defined in Section 61826, and includes brokers and agents and the nonprofit cooperative associations described in Article 2 (commencing with Section 61331) of this chapter in the transactions in which such article provides that the associations are distributors. It also includes both of the following:
(1)
Any person who regularly operates mobile vehicles on routes predominantly for sales of market milk, market cream, or dairy products on such routes to wholesale customers.
(2)
A wholesale customer only as to milk, cream, or any dairy product that is actively and directly processed, manufactured, or packaged by such wholesale customer.
(b)
Distributor does not, however, include any of the following:
(1)
Any wholesale customer which is not actively and directly engaged in manufacturing, processing, or packaging milk, cream, or any dairy product.
(2)
Any producer that delivers milk or cream only to a distributor or manufacturer.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61306.5. Section 61306.5.
“Educational and research activities” means any effort to develop and improve the management practices of dairy producers and processors, including, but not limited to, practices associated with the environmental sustainability of land, air quality, and water quality.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61307. Section 61307.
“Manufacturing milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32509.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61307.2. Section 61307.2.
“Manufacturing milk 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 manufacturing milk in unprocessed or bulk form from a producer, a producer-handler, or another manufacturing milk handler for the purpose of manufacture, processing, sale, or other handling, regardless of whether the manufacturing milk is produced within or outside this state.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61307.4. Section 61307.4.
“Manufacturing milk plant” means any place, structure, or building where a handler receives manufacturing milk.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61308. Section 61308.
“Manufacturer” means any person that is engaged in the business of manufacturing any dairy product.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61309. Section 61309.
“Market milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32510.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61310. Section 61310.
“Market cream” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 35811.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61311. Section 61311.
“Milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32511.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61312. Section 61312.
“Packaged milk,” “packaged cream,” or “packaged dairy product” means market milk, market cream, or any dairy product, 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 § 61313. Section 61313.
“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 § 61314. Section 61314.
“Producer” means any person that operates a dairy herd which produces milk or cream commercially and whose bulk milk or bulk cream is received or handled by any distributor, manufacturer, or any nonprofit cooperative association of producers. It includes the nonprofit cooperative associations described in Article 2 (commencing with Section 61331) of this chapter in the transactions in which such article provides the associations are producers.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61315. Section 61315.
“Producer-distributor” means any person that is both a producer of milk or cream and a distributor of milk, cream, or any dairy product. For the purpose of this chapter, a “producer-distributor” is a producer in any transaction which involves the delivering of bulk milk or bulk cream produced by him to a distributor, manufacturer, or any nonprofit cooperative association of producers, and is a distributor in any transaction which involves the pasteurization of bulk market milk or bulk market cream, or the packaging of such milk or cream in bottles, cartons, dispenser cans, or other consumer packages, or the sale or delivery of packaged milk, packaged cream, or packaged diary products.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61316. Section 61316.
“Restricted use market milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32516.5.
Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 61317. Section 61317.
“Wholesale customer” means any person other than a distributor that buys packaged milk, cream, or any dairy product for resale to consumers or to other wholesale customers.
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