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330 CMR: DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
9/20/96
330 CMR - 151
27.02: continued
Milk Dealer - means any person who offers for sale or sells to another any milk or milk product.
Milk Plant - means any place, premises or establishment where milk or milk products are
collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, aseptically processed, bottled, or prepared for
distribution.
Milk Producer - means any person who operates a dairy farm and provides, sells, or offers milk
for sale to a milk plant, receiving station or transfer station, or as raw for retail.
Milk Tank Truck - means either a bulk milk pickup tanker or a milk transport tank.
Milk Transport Tank - means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a milk hauler to
transport bulk shipments of milk or milk products from a transfer station, receiving station or milk
plant to another transfer station, receiving station or milk plant.
Misbranded - in the case of milk and milk products, means the definition in M.G.L. c. 94, § 187
which pertains to food.
Official Laboratory - an official laboratory is a biological, chemical, or physical laboratory which
is under the direct supervision of the state or a local regulatory agency.
Officially Designated Laboratory - an officially designated laboratory is a commercial laboratory
authorized to do official work by the regulatory agency, or a milk industry laboratory officially
designated by the regulatory agency for the examination of producer samples of Grade A raw
milk for pasteurization and commingled milk tank truck samples of raw milk for antibiotic
residues and bacterial limits.
Pasteurization or Pasteurized - or a similar term means the process of heating every particle of
milk or milk product, in properly designed and operated equipment, to one of the applicable
temperatures described in 105 CMR 541.010(P) and holding every such particle continuously at
or above that temperature for at least the corresponding time specified.
Pasteurization Plant - means any place, premises or establishment where raw milk, milk or milk
products are pasteurized, ultra-pasteurized or aseptically processed. A pasteurization plant may
include milk plants, receiving stations, and transfer stations.
Person - means any individual, plant operator, partnership, corporation, company, firm, trustee,
association or institution.
Potable Water Source - means any source or supplier of water approved by the Department of
Environmental Protection or the Department of Public Health.
Raw Milk for Pasteurization - means Grade "A" milk and raw products thereof which comply
with sanitary standards for production, transportation, receiving, handling, storage, processing,
distribution and sale as determined by the Commissioner of Food and Agriculture in 330 CMR
27.00.
Receiving Station - means any place, premises, or establishment where raw milk is received,
collected, handled, stored, or cooled and prepared for further transporting.
Regulatory Agency - means the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture and its
subdivisions.
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