Sec. 6.

As used in this act:

(a) "Pasteurized milk ordinance" or "PMO" means the Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, 2017 revision, published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

(b) "Person" means an individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee, educational institution, state or local government unit, or corporation.

(c) "Processor" means the owner or operator of a milk plant.

(d) "Producer" means a person that owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person that markets milk on behalf of a producer under a marketing agreement.

(e) "Receiving station" means a place, premises, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting.

(f) "Registered name" means either a name that is registered as "doing business as" at the county clerk's office in the county in which the producer or processor resides or that is registered with this state as a legal entity registered to do business within this state under an assumed name. Registered name includes, but is not limited to, incorporations, corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, and similar entities.

(g) "Retail" means selling or offering for sale dairy products directly to a consumer.

(h) "Retail food establishment" means an operation that sells or offers to sell food directly to a consumer. Retail food establishment includes both a retail grocery and a food service establishment but does not include a food processing plant.

(i) "Sample transfer instrument" means any of the following:

(i) Individually wrapped, sterile, single-service sampling tubes.

(ii) Stainless steel metal dippers, with long handles having capacities of 10 milliliters or greater.

(iii) Sampling devices approved by the director.

(j) "Sanitary standards" means the dairy equipment construction standards or accepted dairy system operating practices formulated by 1 of the following:

(i) 3-A sanitary standards committees representing the International Association for Food Protection, the United States Public Health Service, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the dairy industry committee as approved by the director.

(ii) If sanitary standards are not available for a particular piece of equipment, general sanitary construction standards for dairy equipment formulated by the United States Department of Agriculture or the United States Food and Drug Administration as approved by the director.

(iii) The equipment or practice is approved by bulletin of the director on a case-by-case basis.

(k) "Sell-by date" means the recommended last date of sale.

(l) "Single service containers and closures" means single use containers or parts of single use containers that become milk product contact surfaces when used for the storage, shipping, or marketing of milk or milk products.

(m) "Standard methods" means the seventeenth edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products", published by the American Public Health Association, incorporated by reference.

History: 2001, Act 266, Eff. Feb. 8, 2002 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 136, Eff. June 20, 2008 ;-- Am. 2016, Act 259, Eff. Sept. 26, 2016 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 623, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019