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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-401" future_version_removed="true" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Milk Products">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Bobtailer” means a person who operates or controls a Grade A milk route and distributes Grade A pasteurized milk products that the person buys from a Grade A distributor or a milk processor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Bulk milk hauler/sampler” means any person who collects official samples and transports raw milk from a farm or raw milk products or both to or from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station and who possesses a permit from any state to sample the milk or raw milk products.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Certified industry dairy farm inspector” means an individual who is certified by the Secretary under § 21–414 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Dairy farm” means a place where at least 1 cow, goat, or other hooved mammal is kept, and from which the milk is sold or offered for sale.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Departmental inspection area” means the area in which the Department routinely makes inspections under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Farmstead cheese” means cheese made on a dairy farm:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Using only the raw milk produced by the herd or flock on the dairy farm; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That meets the definitions and standards of a hard cheese established in 21 C.F.R. 133.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Grade A distribution station” means any place or vehicle where, for redistribution and sale, Grade A pasteurized milk products routinely are received, stored, or transferred.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Grade A distributor” means a person who sells a Grade A pasteurized milk product.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Grade A milk product” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Grade A milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Grade A cream; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other Grade A milk product that the Secretary designates.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Manufactured grade milk product” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Manufactured grade milk;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Manufactured grade cream; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other manufactured grade milk product that the Secretary designates.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance” means the recommended Grade “A” Pasteurized Milk Ordinance published by the federal government.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Milk” means the milk of a cow, goat, or other hooved mammal.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Grade A milk” means the milk of a cow, goat, or other hooved mammal produced, processed, pasteurized, bottled, packaged, or prepared in accordance with the Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Manufactured milk” means the milk of a cow, goat, or other hooved mammal which is not Grade A milk and which is produced, processed, pasteurized, bottled, packaged, or prepared in accordance with “Milk for Manufacturing Purposes and Its Production and Processing: Recommended Requirements”.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Milk fat” means the natural fat of milk.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Milk for Manufacturing Purposes and Its Production and Processing: Recommended Requirements” means the Milk for Manufacturing Purposes and Its Production and Processing: Recommended Requirements published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Milk plant” means any place where, for distribution, milk products are:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Processed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Pasteurized;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Bottled or packaged; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Prepared.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Milk plant” does not include a place where milk products are sold at retail only.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Milk processor” means a person who owns, operates, or controls a milk plant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Milk producer” means a person who operates a dairy farm.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Milk tank truck” means a truck and its equipment that are used to transport milk products.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <text>“Milk transportation company” means a person responsible for a milk tank truck.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="t">
    <text>“Misbranded milk product” means a milk product:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>That is in a container that bears or is accompanied by any false or misleading written, printed, or graphic material; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That is not labeled in accordance with this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="u">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Pasteurized” means having undergone the process of uniformly heating each particle of milk product, holding it in the heated state, and cooling it, in approved and properly operated equipment and under the conditions of temperature and time that the Secretary by rule or regulation establishes, to make the milk product safe and free of pathogens.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Pasteurized” includes having undergone any other process that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is recognized by the appropriate federal authority to be equally as effective as the process described in paragraph (1) of this subsection in making milk products safe and free of pathogens; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is approved by the Secretary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="v">
    <text>“Permit” means a permit issued by the Secretary under this subtitle that authorizes the holder of the permit to do any act that is within the scope of the permit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="w">
    <text>“Raw milk” means unpasteurized milk.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="x">
    <text>“Receiving station” means any place where, for delivery to a milk plant, raw milk is collected, cooled, and stored.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="y">
    <text>“Transfer station” means a place where milk is transferred directly from a milk tank truck to another milk tank truck for delivery to a milk plant.</text>
  </level>
</section>
