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U.S. Code of Federal Regula...
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Title 7—Agriculture
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CHAPTER I—AGRICULTURAL MARK...
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PART 58—GRADING AND INSPECTION, GENERAL SPECIFI...
PART 58—GRADING AND INSPECTION, GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR APPROVED PLANTS AND STANDARDS FOR GRADES OF DAIRY PRODUCTS 1
§ 58.1 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.2 - Designation of official certificates, memoranda, marks, identifications, and devices for purpose of the Agricultural Marketing Act.
§ 58.3 - Authority.
§ 58.4 - Basis of service.
§ 58.5 - Where service is offered.
§ 58.6 - Supervision of service.
§ 58.7 - Who may obtain service.
§ 58.8 - How to make application.
§ 58.9 - Form of application.
§ 58.10 - Filing of application.
§ 58.11 - Approval of application.
§ 58.12 - When application may be rejected.
§ 58.13 - When application may be withdrawn.
§ 58.14 - Authority of applicant.
§ 58.15 - Accessibility and condition of product.
§ 58.16 - Disposition of samples.
§ 58.17 - Order of service.
§ 58.18 - Inspection or grading certificates, memoranda, or reports.
§ 58.19 - Issuance of inspection or grading certificates.
§ 58.20 - Disposition of inspection or grading certificates or reports.
§ 58.21 - Advance information.
§ 58.22 - When appeal inspection or grading may be requested.
§ 58.23 - How to obtain appeal inspection or grading.
§ 58.24 - Record of filing time.
§ 58.25 - When an application for appeal inspection or grading may be refused.
§ 58.26 - When an application for an appeal inspection or grading may be withdrawn.
§ 58.27 - Order in which appeal inspections or gradings are performed.
§ 58.28 - Who shall make appeal inspections or gradings.
§ 58.29 - Appeal inspection or grading certificate or report.
§ 58.30 - Application for reinspection or regrading.
§ 58.31 - Reinspection or regrading certificate or report.
§ 58.32 - Superseded certificates or reports.
§ 58.33 - Who may be licensed.
§ 58.34 - Suspension or revocation of license.
§ 58.35 - Surrender of license.
§ 58.36 - Identification.
§ 58.37 - Financial interest of licensees.
§ 58.38 - Payment of fees and charges.
§ 58.39 - Fees for holiday or other nonworktime.
§ 58.40 - Fees for appeal inspection or grading.
§ 58.41 - Fees for additional copies of certificates.
§ 58.42 - Travel expenses and other charges.
§ 58.43 - Fees for inspection, grading, sampling, and certification.
§ 58.45 - Fees for continuous resident services.
§ 58.46 - Fees for service performed under cooperative agreement.
§ 58.49 - Authority to use official identification.
§ 58.50 - Approval and form of official identification.
§ 58.51 - Information required on official identification.
§ 58.52 - Time limit for packaging inspected or graded products with official identification.
§ 58.53 - Supervisor of packaging required.
§ 58.54 - Packing and packaging room and equipment.
§ 58.55 - Facilities for keeping quality samples.
§ 58.56 - Incubation of product samples.
§ 58.57 - Product not eligible for packaging with official identification.
§ 58.58 - Debarment of service.
§ 58.61 - Political activity.
§ 58.62 - Report of violations.
§ 58.63 - Other applicable regulations.
§ 58.64 - OMB control numbers assigned pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act.
§ 58.100 - OMB control numbers assigned pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act.
§ 58.101 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.122 - Approved plants under USDA inspection and grading service.
§ 58.123 - Survey and approval.
§ 58.124 - Denial or suspension of plant approval.
§ 58.125 - Premises.
§ 58.126 - Buildings.
§ 58.127 - Facilities.
§ 58.128 - Equipment and utensils.
§ 58.129 - Cleanliness.
§ 58.130 - Health.
§ 58.131 - Equipment and facilities.
§ 58.132 - Basis for classification.
§ 58.133 - Methods for quality and wholesomeness determination.
§ 58.134 - Sediment content for milk in cans.
§ 58.135 - Bacterial estimate.
§ 58.136 - Rejected milk.
§ 58.137 - Excluded milk.
§ 58.138 - Quality testing of milk from new producers.
§ 58.139 - Record of tests.
§ 58.140 - Field service.
§ 58.141 - Alternate quality control program.
§ 58.142 - Product quality and stability.
§ 58.143 - Raw product storage.
§ 58.144 - Pasteurization or ultra-pasteurization.
§ 58.145 - Composition and wholesomeness.
§ 58.146 - Cleaning and sanitizing treatment.
§ 58.147 - Insect and rodent control program.
§ 58.148 - Plant records.
§ 58.149 - Alternate quality control programs for dairy products.
§ 58.150 - Containers.
§ 58.151 - Packaging and repackaging.
§ 58.152 - General identification.
§ 58.153 - Dry storage.
§ 58.154 - Refrigerated storage.
§ 58.155 - Grading.
§ 58.156 - Inspection.
§ 58.157 - Inspection or grading certificates.
§ 58.158 - Official identification.
§ 58.159 - Terms.
§ 58.205 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.210 - Dry storage of product.
§ 58.211 - Packaging room for bulk products.
§ 58.212 - Hopper or dump room.
§ 58.213 - Repackaging room.
§ 58.214 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.215 - Pre-heaters.
§ 58.216 - Hotwells.
§ 58.217 - Evaporators and/or vacuum pans.
§ 58.218 - Surge tanks.
§ 58.219 - High pressure pumps and lines.
§ 58.220 - Drying systems.
§ 58.221 - Collectors and conveyors.
§ 58.222 - Dry dairy product cooling equipment.
§ 58.223 - Special treatment equipment.
§ 58.224 - Sifters.
§ 58.225 - Clothing and shoe covers.
§ 58.226 - Portable and stationary bulk bins.
§ 58.227 - Sampling device.
§ 58.228 - Dump hoppers, screens, mixers and conveyors.
§ 58.229 - Filler and packaging equipment.
§ 58.230 - Heavy duty vacuum cleaners.
§ 58.231 - General.
§ 58.232 - Milk.
§ 58.233 - Skim milk.
§ 58.234 - Buttermilk.
§ 58.235 - Modified dry milk products.
§ 58.236 - Pasteurization and heat treatment.
§ 58.237 - Condensed surge supply.
§ 58.238 - Condensed storage tanks.
§ 58.239 - Drying.
§ 58.240 - Cooling dry products.
§ 58.241 - Packaging, repackaging and storage.
§ 58.242 - Product adulteration.
§ 58.243 - Checking quality.
§ 58.244 - Number of samples.
§ 58.245 - Method of sample analysis.
§ 58.246 - Cleaning of dryers, collectors, conveyors, ducts, sifters and storage bins.
§ 58.247 - Insect and rodent control program.
§ 58.248 - Nonfat dry milk.
§ 58.249 - Instant nonfat dry milk.
§ 58.250 - Dry whole milk.
§ 58.251 - Dry buttermilk and dry buttermilk product.
§ 58.305 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.311 - Coolers and freezers.
§ 58.312 - Churn rooms.
§ 58.313 - Print and bulk packaging rooms.
§ 58.314 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.315 - Continuous churns.
§ 58.316 - Conventional churns.
§ 58.317 - Bulk butter trucks, boats, texturizers, and packers.
§ 58.318 - Butter, frozen or plastic cream melting machines.
§ 58.319 - Printing equipment.
§ 58.320 - Brine tanks.
§ 58.321 - Cream storage tanks.
§ 58.322 - Cream.
§ 58.323 - Butteroil.
§ 58.324 - Butteroil.
§ 58.325 - Anhydrous milkfat.
§ 58.326 - Plastic cream.
§ 58.327 - Frozen cream.
§ 58.328 - Salt.
§ 58.329 - Color.
§ 58.330 - Butter starter cultures.
§ 58.331 - Starter distillate.
§ 58.332 - Segregation of raw material.
§ 58.334 - Pasteurization.
§ 58.335 - Quality control tests.
§ 58.336 - Frequency of sampling for quality control of cream, butter and related products.
§ 58.337 - Official test methods.
§ 58.338 - Composition and wholesomeness.
§ 58.339 - Containers.
§ 58.340 - Printing and packaging.
§ 58.341 - Repackaging.
§ 58.342 - General identification.
§ 58.343 - Storage of finished product in coolers.
§ 58.344 - Storage of finished product in freezer.
§ 58.345 - Butter.
§ 58.346 - Whipped butter.
§ 58.347 - Butteroil or anhydrous milkfat.
§ 58.348 - Plastic cream.
§ 58.349 - Frozen cream.
§ 58.405 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.406 - Starter facility.
§ 58.407 - Make room.
§ 58.408 - Brine room.
§ 58.409 - Drying room.
§ 58.410 - Paraffining room.
§ 58.411 - Rindless cheese wrapping area.
§ 58.412 - Coolers or curing rooms.
§ 58.413 - Cutting and packaging rooms.
§ 58.414 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.415 - Starter vats.
§ 58.416 - Cheese vats, tanks and drain tables.
§ 58.417 - Mechanical agitators.
§ 58.418 - Automatic cheese making equipment.
§ 58.419 - Curd mill and miscellaneous equipment.
§ 58.420 - Hoops, forms and followers.
§ 58.421 - Press.
§ 58.422 - Brine tank.
§ 58.423 - Cheese vacuumizing chamber.
§ 58.424 - Monorail.
§ 58.425 - Conveyor for moving and draining block or barrel cheese.
§ 58.426 - Rindless cheese wrapping equipment.
§ 58.427 - Paraffin tanks.
§ 58.428 - Speciality equipment.
§ 58.429 - Washing machine.
§ 58.430 - Milk.
§ 58.431 - Hydrogen peroxide.
§ 58.432 - Catalase.
§ 58.433 - Cheese cultures.
§ 58.434 - Calcium chloride.
§ 58.435 - Color.
§ 58.436 - Rennet, pepsin, other milk clotting enzymes and flavor enzymes.
§ 58.437 - Salt.
§ 58.438 - Cheese from pasteurized milk.
§ 58.439 - Cheese from unpasteurized milk.
§ 58.440 - Make schedule.
§ 58.441 - Records.
§ 58.442 - Laboratory and quality control tests.
§ 58.443 - Whey handling.
§ 58.444 - Packaging and repackaging.
§ 58.445 - General identification.
§ 58.446 - Quality requirements.
§ 58.505 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.510 - Rooms and compartments.
§ 58.511 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.512 - Cheese vats or tanks.
§ 58.513 - Agitators.
§ 58.514 - Container fillers.
§ 58.515 - Mixers.
§ 58.516 - Starter vats.
§ 58.517 - General.
§ 58.518 - Milk.
§ 58.519 - Dairy products.
§ 58.520 - Nondairy ingredients.
§ 58.521 - Pasteurization and product flow.
§ 58.522 - Reconstituting nonfat dry milk.
§ 58.523 - Laboratory and quality control tests.
§ 58.524 - Packaging and general identification.
§ 58.525 - Storage of finished product.
§ 58.526 - Official identification.
§ 58.527 - Physical requirements.
§ 58.528 - Microbiological requirements.
§ 58.529 - Chemical requirements.
§ 58.530 - Keeping quality requirements.
§ 58.605 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.619 - Mix processing room.
§ 58.620 - Freezing and packaging rooms.
§ 58.621 - Freezing tunnels.
§ 58.622 - Hardening and storage rooms.
§ 58.623 - Homogenizer.
§ 58.624 - Freezers.
§ 58.625 - Fruit or syrup feeders.
§ 58.626 - Packaging equipment.
§ 58.627 - Milk and dairy products.
§ 58.628 - Sweetening agents.
§ 58.629 - Flavoring agents.
§ 58.630 - Stabilizers.
§ 58.631 - Emulsifiers.
§ 58.632 - Acid.
§ 58.633 - Color.
§ 58.634 - Assembling and combining mix ingredients.
§ 58.635 - Pasteurization of the mix.
§ 58.636 - Homogenization.
§ 58.637 - Cooling the mix.
§ 58.638 - Freezing the mix.
§ 58.639 - Addition of flavor.
§ 58.640 - Packaging.
§ 58.641 - Hardening and storage.
§ 58.642 - Quality control tests.
§ 58.643 - Frequency of sampling.
§ 58.644 - Test methods.
§ 58.645 - General identification.
§ 58.646 - Official identification.
§ 58.647 - Composition requirements for ice cream.
§ 58.648 - Microbiological requirements for ice cream.
§ 58.649 - Physical requirements for ice cream.
§ 58.650 - Requirements for frozen custard.
§ 58.651 - Composition requirements for sherbet.
§ 58.652 - Composition requirements for sherbet.
§ 58.653 - Microbiological requirements for sherbet.
§ 58.654 - Physical requirements for sherbet.
§ 58.705 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.706 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.707 - Conveyors.
§ 58.708 - Grinders or shredders.
§ 58.709 - Cookers.
§ 58.710 - Fillers.
§ 58.711 - Cheddar, colby, washed or soaked curd, granular or stirred curd cheese.
§ 58.712 - Swiss.
§ 58.713 - Gruyere.
§ 58.714 - Cream cheese, Neufchatel cheese.
§ 58.715 - Cream, plastic cream and anhydrous milkfat.
§ 58.716 - Nonfat dry milk.
§ 58.717 - Whey.
§ 58.718 - Flavor ingredients.
§ 58.719 - Coloring.
§ 58.720 - Acidifying agents.
§ 58.721 - Salt.
§ 58.722 - Emulsifying agents.
§ 58.723 - Basis for selecting cheese for processing.
§ 58.724 - Blending.
§ 58.725 - Trimming and cleaning.
§ 58.726 - Cutting and grinding.
§ 58.727 - Adding optional ingredients.
§ 58.728 - Cooking the batch.
§ 58.729 - Forming containers.
§ 58.730 - Filling containers.
§ 58.731 - Closing and sealing containers.
§ 58.732 - Cooling the packaged cheese.
§ 58.733 - Quality control tests.
§ 58.734 - Official identification.
§ 58.735 - Quality specifications for raw materials.
§ 58.736 - Pasteurized process cheese.
§ 58.737 - Pasteurized process cheese food.
§ 58.738 - Pasteurized process cheese spread and related products.
§ 58.805 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.806 - General.
§ 58.807 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.808 - Whey.
§ 58.809 - Pasteurization.
§ 58.810 - Temperature requirements.
§ 58.811 - General.
§ 58.812 - Methods of sample analysis.
§ 58.813 - Dry whey.
§ 58.905 - Meaning of words.
§ 58.912 - General construction, repair and installation.
§ 58.913 - Evaporators and vacuum pans.
§ 58.914 - Fillers.
§ 58.915 - Batch or continuous in-container thermal processing equipment.
§ 58.916 - Homogenizer.
§ 58.917 - General.
§ 58.918 - Standardization.
§ 58.919 - Pre-heat, pasteurization.
§ 58.920 - Homogenization.
§ 58.921 - Concentration.
§ 58.922 - Thermal processing.
§ 58.923 - Filling containers.
§ 58.924 - Aseptic filling.
§ 58.925 - Sweetened condensed.
§ 58.926 - Heat stability.
§ 58.927 - Storage.
§ 58.928 - Quality control tests.
§ 58.929 - Frequency of sampling for quality control.
§ 58.930 - Official test methods.
§ 58.931 - General identification.
§ 58.932 - Milk.
§ 58.933 - Stabilizers.
§ 58.934 - Sugars.
§ 58.935 - Chocolate and cocoa.
§ 58.936 - Milk.
§ 58.937 - Physical requirements for evaporated milk.
§ 58.938 - Physical requirements and microbiological limits for sweetened condensed milk.
§ 58.2825 - United States Standard for ice cream.
§ 58.2826 - General identification.
§ 58.2827 - Official identification.