Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

The certificate of inspection shall be signed by the inspector and shall show all of the following: (a) The place and date of inspection and the number of animals inspected. (b) The sex, the brand, if any, on each branded animal recorded in the name of the owner of the animal, or…

One copy of the certificate of inspection shall accompany the shipment.

Unless the inspector who issued the certificate is notified and approves, it is unlawful for any person to remove any animal and substitute another for it, or to add other animals or take animals away from any lot of cattle for which a certificate has been issued until after the …

Cattle which are shipped for slaughter from either of the following points of origin may be inspected by the director without any charge prior to slaughter on a monitoring basis sufficient to assure that uninspected cattle are not being slaughtered: (a) Registered feedlots. (b) P…

Whenever the director upon the inspection provided for by Section 21206 finds any cattle that have not been inspected in accordance with subdivisions (d), (f) and (g) of Section 21051, he shall inspect the cattle and charge for the inspection.

In addition to any other penalty, any person who slaughters cattle at a slaughter plant without the brand inspection required by this chapter, shall pay a penalty fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each head of cattle so slaughtered.

Unless the shipment is released pursuant to Section 21233 or 21744, no common carrier, or owner or driver of any conveyance shall receive for transporation or transport any cattle until they have been inspected, and the carrier, owner, or driver has been furnished with duplicate …

The duplicate brand inspection certificate shall accompany to destination any cattle which are transported over a public thoroughfare. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The chief may release, or provide for the release of, cattle without the inspection which is required by Section 21231, but inspection shall be made en route or at the point of destination. The owner shall keep such cattle segregated until they are inspected. (Enacted by Stats. 1…

Any brand inspection certificate which has been altered, defaced, or changed is void. An inspector may, however, indicate on an inspection certificate any number of cattle which are sold by the holder of the inspection certificate, if he signs and dates such alterations on the in…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21236, it is unlawful for any person to alter, deface, or change any brand inspection certificate. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21236, it is unlawful for any person to possess, or present to an inspector or any peace officer, any brand inspection certificate that has been altered, defaced, or otherwise changed.

The chief may provide for the issuance of shipping permits for inspected cattle which are shipped by railroad, or for cattle that are covered by one certificate of inspection, which are transported in more than one conveyance. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

All brand inspection fees are due and payable at the time of the inspection. The amount which is due for all inspections that are made shall be paid to the director within 30 days after the issuance of the brand inspection certificates by the inspector for the cattle which were i…

In addition to other applicable fees, as provided by this chapter, the secretary may impose a service charge in an amount not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) for an inspection of 29 head of cattle or less at each site, or a service charge of fifteen dollars ($15) for an inspe…

Any fees which are due and payable for brand inspections which are not paid as required by this article may be recovered by the director pursuant to Section 281. Inspection services may be refused for nonpayment of prior services which have been rendered. When the brand inspectio…

(a) Unless otherwise provided in this article, inspection fees shall be paid at the point of inspection. (b) The fee for inspection is one dollar and sixty cents ($1.60) for each animal that is inspected, except as follows: (1) The fee for inspection at a registered feedlot, as d…

Except as otherwise provided in this article, on all private treaty transaction inspections, as defined in Section 20026, regardless of destination, the fee of one dollar and sixty cents ($1.60) shall be paid at the point of inspection for each animal that is inspected.

A charge shall not be made for the inspection of suckling calves which are accompanying their mothers if they are transported for purposes other than for sale or slaughter and without a change in ownership. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The fee is one dollar and sixty cents ($1.60) for the inspection before sale of each animal at a public saleyard that is posted by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or at a public saleyard if the animal originated in another state and it was shipped to this state,…

In a modified point-of-origin inspection area, as provided in Section 21111, the fee for the inspection of cattle, other than suckling calves that are accompanying their mothers, is one dollar and sixty cents ($1.60) per head if the cattle are transported out of the area for purp…

For cattle, other than suckling calves accompanying their mothers, transported out of the state for purposes other than sale or slaughter and where no change of ownership is involved, the inspection fee is one dollar and sixty cents ($1.60) per head.

The fee for the inspection of cattle which originated in any county or geographical area where a full point-of-origin inspection is maintained pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 21141) shall be established by the director, upon recommendation of the Livestock Identifi…

Any person who receives cattle from any cattle sale market, either public or private, including any public stockyard where sales of cattle are held, may, upon request and upon payment of a fee of eighty cents ($0.80) per head before accepting delivery of any cattle from that mark…

The fees which are provided in Article 9 (commencing with Section 21281) and Article 5 (commencing with Section 21561) may be: (a) Lowered by the director, based upon a finding and recommendation of the Livestock Identification Advisory Board, whenever they determine that the cos…

(a) The Bureau of Livestock Identification is authorized to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with any purebred cattle producer or breeder for purposes of pre-inspection of purebred bulls, or 4H or Future Farmers of America project calves, that are for sale within the stat…

The inspector shall make a memorandum which shows the number, sex, brands, or marks on each animal which is inspected, and the names of the owner or claimant, consignor, and consignee. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The memorandum of the inspection shall be retained for record purposes by the inspector for at least two years after the date of the inspection. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The bureau shall maintain for a period of five years a file of brand inspection certificates in such manner as to disclose the number of cattle which have been inspected. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

“Poultry” means domesticated fowl that is intended for use for human food. It includes chickens, game hens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domesticated birds.

“Poultry meat” means the carcass of poultry or any part of the carcass. It does not include live poultry or manufactured products in which poultry is not the main ingredient.

Before being offered for retail sale in this state, poultry meat of poultry that was grown or raised in this state may be advertised, labeled, described, sold, marked, or otherwise held out, with the words “California grown,” or other similar language indicating that the meat is …

(a) Poultry meat of poultry that was not grown or raised in this state and packages of that meat shall not be advertised, labeled, described, sold, marked, or otherwise held out as “California grown,” or in any way as to imply that the meat is from California grown or raised poul…

It is unlawful for any person to operate a milk products plant unless such plant scores a minimum of 80 percent on the official scorecard for milk products plants which is established by regulation of the director. None of the provisions for scoring as set forth herein shall be a…

The provisions of Sections 33701, 33762, 33763, 33764, and 33765 do not apply to any milk products plant, its utensils, apparatus, and equipment which are used for the processing, manufacturing, handling, and storing of milk, or any products of milk if such milk products plant an…

Notwithstanding any provision of Section 33522, 33764, or 33765, containers, utensils, appliances, and equipment used for handling or bottling milk or milk products may be used for handling and bottling fruit juices or fruit juice base beverages pursuant to regulations of the dir…

(a) (1) Sections 33701, 33731, 33732, 33733, 33734, 33767, 33768, 33770, 33771, 33776, and 34593 do not apply to the manufacture of ice cream that is manufactured from ice cream mix, to frozen dairy dessert that is manufactured from frozen dairy dessert mix, to frozen dessert tha…

“Frozen dairy dessert” is the food prepared by freezing while stirring a pasteurized mix containing milk or ingredients, derived from milk, or both, and which may contain other optional safe and suitable ingredients. Frozen dairy desserts contain less than six percent, by weight,…

Frozen desserts, not subject to a standard of identity prescribed by Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, may be manufactured or sold, or both, if they are in compliance with all applicable health, safety, and labeling requirements, and if their labels bear a statement of…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division, any wholesome agricultural food product which does not affect the flavor or quality of milk products may be manufactured in any milk products plant subject to conditions which are prescribed by the director, and upon obtainin…

No new milk products plant shall be constructed nor shall extensive repairs be made to any existing milk products plant unless plans or specifications which show in detail the nature of the construction or alteration have been submitted to the director and unless the plans and sp…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 33733, minimum construction standards for new milk products plants shall include a separate room for each of the following operations: (a) Receiving and weighing of milk or cream, and washing and sterilizing of containers in which milk or c…

A separate room is required for conducting each of the operations which is listed in Section 33732, except that, if any of the functions which are specified in subdivisions (a) to (g), inclusive, of that section are not performed at a milk products plant, there need not be a sepa…

Whenever and wherever the functions which are specified in Section 33732 are performed, such performance shall be with equipment which is determined by the director to be stationary by nature and permanently located. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

If any provision of this article is violated by any milk products plant, the milk products plant is insanitary. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Milk or cream, or any product of milk or cream, shall not be received, by a milk products plant if such milk or cream, or product of milk or cream, comes within any of the following classes: (a) Is impure, tainted, unclean, adulterated, or unwholesome. (b) Has reached an advanced…

The utensils and apparatus that come in contact with milk or its products shall be thoroughly washed and afterwards sterilized each time they are used by heating them to a temperature above 200 degrees Fahrenheit, or by a chemical or other sterilization process which has been app…

The cans or other containers in which the milk or milk products are received, transported, or delivered shall be thoroughly washed, sterilized, and dried after emptying and before being sent out to be used again. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

No container, utensil, apparatus, or equipment, except as otherwise provided, shall be used for any purpose other than that of handling milk and the products of milk. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)