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330 CMR: DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
9/20/96
330 CMR - 150
27.02: continued
Bureau - shall mean the Bureau of Dairying in the Division of Regulatory Services of the
Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture.
Certificate of Registration and Certification - means approval by the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts to produce and sell milk as provided by M.G.L. c. 94, § 16.
Commissioner - means the Commissioner of the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Dairy Farm - means a place or premises where more than two cows are kept and a part or all of
the milk produced thereof is sold or delivered for sale to any person.
Department - means the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture.
Director - means the Director of the Division of Regulatory Services.
Drug - means articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia, official
Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States, or the official National Formulary, or any
supplement to any of them; and articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, and articles (other than food)
intendedto affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals, and;
articles intended for use as a component of any articles specified in the above, but does not
include devices or their components, parts or accessories.
Grade "A" - means milk and milk products which comply with the provisions of 330 CMR 27.00.
Grade "A" Fluid Milk and Milk Products - shall include skim milk, lowfat milk, buttermilk,
cultured buttermilk, acidified buttermilk, cultured skim milk, acidified milk, acidified lowfat milk,
acidified skim milk, low sodium milk, lactose-reduced acidified milk, lactose-reduced skim milk,
ultra pasteurized milk, asceptically processed and packaged milk, milk or lowfat milk or skim milk
withadded safe and suitable microbial organisms, and any other milk products made by the
addition or subtraction of milk fat or addition of safe and suitable optional ingredients for protein,
vitamin, or mineral fortification herein, irrespective of the way that the product is flavored, and
any other dairy product designated by the Commissioner.
As defined here, "Fluid milk and Milk Products" is not intended to include products such as
butter, cottage cheese, lowfat cottage cheese, dry curd cottage cheese, hard and soft cheeses,
cream,light cream, light whipping cream, whipped cream, whipped light cream, sour cream,
acidified sour cream, cultured sour cream, dietary products, half-and-half, infant formula, ice
cream and other desserts, concentrated milk, concentrated milk products, condensed milk, dry
milk and milk products, evaporated milk, evaporated skim milk, reconstituted or lowfat yogurt,
nonfat yogurt, whey, condensed and dry whey, and whey products, or any other dairy product
designated by the Commissioner, except when they are combined with other substances to
produce any pasteurized, ultra-pasteurized, or aseptically processed milk or milk product defined
herein.
Any product referred to in this definition shall comply with the provisions of 330 CMR 27.00.
Law - means all applicable federal, state and local statutes, ordinances and regulations.
Milk - means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete
milking of one or more healthy cows or goats. Milk that is in final package form for beverage use
shall contain not less than 8.25% milk solids not fat and not less than 3.25% milkfat for cow milk.
Goat milk shall contain not less than 2.5% milkfat and not less than 7.5% milk solids not fat.
Milk may be adjusted by separating part of the milkfat therefrom or by adding cream thereto.
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