Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

It is unlawful for any person to sell cattle at a public salesyard or release cattle from public salesyards unless an inspector has made a brand inspection of animals which are consigned or shipped to such yard.

It is unlawful for any person to release any cattle which are sold at public auction unless the required brand inspection certificate has been prepared by the inspector in advance of the release of the cattle from the premises where the auction was conducted.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 21750, any person that engages as a business in the sale of cattle at a public salesyard without a license is, in addition to all other penalties, liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars ($25) and an additional penalty of one dollar ($1)…

Any public cattle salesyard operator that has had a previous license and continues to operate a public salesyard after the expiration of his license is not required to pay penalties pursuant to Section 21749 if he applies for a new license within 30 days after the expiration of h…

(a) If cattle sold at a public auction have a dairy exemption number, the auctioneer shall announce at the sale that those cattle are being sold under the dairy exemption number provision and must go directly to slaughter. (b) Any person who buys cattle under a dairy exemption nu…

Pasteurization of milk or a milk product is a process which consists of one of the following: (a) Uniformly heating milk or a milk product to a temperature of not less than 145 degrees Fahrenheit and of holding it at such temperature for at least 30 minutes, except a milk product…

When the term “ultra-pasteurized” is used to describe any milk or milk product, it means that such milk or milk product has been thermally processed, either before or after packaging, in accordance with the ultra-pasteurization requirements of regulations established under the Fe…

If the process of ripening or starting is to be commenced immediately, each of the following shall be cooled to a degree no lower than necessary for such ripening or starting: (a) Cream which is pasteurized for use and which is used in the manufacture of butter. (b) Milk which is…

In the process of producing cream from market milk which is to be used as market cream or for the standardization of market milk, such cream may be heated to a temperature of not to exceed 165 degrees Fahrenheit and immediately cooled to a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or …

Pasteurized skim milk, which is derived from market milk and which is used for standardizing pasteurized market milk, may be repasteurized once. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Market cream which has not been packaged for distribution to consumers may be repasteurized once. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Every person that operates any place where milk is received and byproducts are distributed shall pasteurize any skim milk, whey, or other milk byproduct which is to be used for feeding purposes for farm animals before delivering it. Such pasteurization may be accomplished by heat…

(a) Every person that uses any pasteurizing apparatus for the manufacture of soft fresh cheese varieties that are not cultured shall sample and test the pasteurized milk daily from each pasteurizer to determine the presence of phosphatase enzymes in a manner approved by the direc…

(a) All market milk and market milk products, and all milk for manufacturing purposes and manufactured milk products, shall be pasteurized at the plant where processed and packaged unless otherwise provided in this division. (b) This section does not apply to any of the following…

Any apparatus which is used for the pasteurization of milk or any milk product shall be kept in strictly clean and sanitary condition. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Any vat, tank, or container which is used to store a milk byproduct shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Each vat, tank, or other receptacle in which milk or any milk product is pasteurized shall be equipped with a recording thermometer device to accurately record the temperature to which, and the length of time for which, the pasteurized product has been heated. (Enacted by Stats. …

Each vat, tank, or other receptacle in which milk or any milk product is pasteurized shall also be equipped with an indicating thermometer. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Any recording thermometer device and any indicating thermometer which is used in pasteurization shall be of a type which is approved by, and its use is at all times subject to the approval of, the director. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Every person that uses any pasteurizing apparatus within the state shall date, preserve, and keep on file for not less than one year after they are made, all records which have been made by the recording thermometer. The records shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of t…

Every person who uses any pasteurizing apparatus within the state shall compile and keep on file for not less than one year records relating to pasteurization equipment modifications, maintenance, and repairs. The records shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of the dire…

It is unlawful for any person to sell any milk or product of milk as and for pasteurized milk or a product of pasteurized milk, or to use the word “pasteurized” or any of its derivatives in connection with the sale, designation, advertising, labeling, or billing of any milk or pr…

Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this code which relate to margarine, dairy spread, or spread are likewise applicable to colored margarine, colored dairy spread, or colored spread.

It is unlawful for any person knowingly to ship, or for any carrier for hire knowingly to receive for shipment, any margarine, dairy spread, or spread unless it is labeled in conformity with this chapter and shipped and receipted for in its true name, or unless it is in transit b…

It is unlawful for any person knowingly to possess or have under his or her control any margarine, dairy spread, or spread, except for actual consumption by himself or herself or his or her family, unless it is labeled in conformity with this chapter.

Each person that manufactures any margarine, dairy spread, or spread shall comply with this article.

There shall be printed, stamped, or stenciled in a clear and durable manner upon one side of each tub, firkin, box, or other outer package in which margarine, dairy spread, or spread is removed from the place where it is produced or put up, as distinguished from the package in wh…

It is unlawful for any person to sell any margarine, dairy spread, or spread, unless there is printed upon the label of each and every package, or other container in which the margarine, dairy spread, or spread is put up for sale or sold at retail all of the following: (a) The wo…

A person shall not sell or take orders for the future delivery of any margarine, dairy spread, or spread under the name of butter, or under the pretense that the substance is butter.

A person shall not, in connection or association with the sale or advertisement of any margarine, dairy spread, or spread represent or suggest by any means whatsoever that the substance is a dairy product. Nothing contained in this section shall, however, prevent an accurate and …

Margarine (oleomargarine) is a substitute for butter which contains not less than 80 percent edible oils or fat and otherwise conforms to Part 166 (commencing with Section 166.40) of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

Colored margarine, dairy spread, or spread is margarine, dairy spread, or spread which has a tint or shade that contains more than 1.6 degrees of yellow, or of yellow and red collectively, but with an excess of yellow over red, measured in terms of the Lovibond tintometer scale o…

Dairy spread is a substitute for butter which is made from a blend of milkfat, cultured buttermilk, milk solids-not-fat, and edible oil or fat, other than milk fat. Dairy spread may contain one or more of the following optional ingredients: salt, harmless flavor and color, any sa…

Dairy spread shall contain a minimum of 40 percent fat and a minimum of 15 percent milk solids-not-fat; (60 percent of the blended fat ingredients shall be of milk fat origin) and may contain not more than 0.01 percent potassium sorbate to retard spoilage. Dairy spread shall be p…

Spread is a substitute for butter consisting of mixtures of compounds which may include milk solids-not-fat and edible oils and fats that is made in imitation or semblance of butter and does not meet the definition for margarine or dairy spread.

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

“Association” means an association of produce dealers which is organized to carry out the responsibilities of produce dealers which are imposed by this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

“City” includes city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

“Commissioner,” with respect to any matter which relates to a particular market, means the deputy labor commissioner who is in charge of the office of the Labor Commissioner which is located nearest to that market. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

“Director” means the Director of Industrial Relations. (Enacted by Stats. 1967. Ch. 15.)

“Farm product” means any fruit, nut, vegetable, berry, or aquacultural product.

“Market” means the places of business, collectively, of produce dealers that operate in a city, or the vicinity of a city, and that deal in any farm product which is intended, in whole or in part, for ultimate sale for consumption in a fresh state within the city and the vicinity…

“Produce dealer” includes “commission merchant,” as defined in Section 56105, and “dealer,” as defined in Section 56107. It does not, however, include a “broker,” as defined in Section 56103, nor “processor,” as defined in Section 55407. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

“Registered unloader” means a person who unloads any farm product in a market. It does not, however, include any of the following: (a) A producer of farm products, or his or her son or daughter, father, mother, or regularly employed employee. (b) The operator of any vehicle which…

“Union” means the labor union which has been recognized by the National Labor Relations Board, or other governmental agency which has jurisdiction, as the bargaining agency for employees who are employed in a market. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the orderly marketing of farm products and the establishment of reasonable charges for unloading such products at markets in this state. It is declared that in some of the markets of this state the charges for unloading farm products h…

The director may make such regulations as he may deem necessary to carry out this chapter and to effectuate its purposes. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

This chapter does not apply to any market in which less than five produce dealers operate. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

This chapter does not apply to any produce dealer at whose place of business every farm product which is delivered is unloaded without charge by employees of the produce dealer either with or without the assistance of the operator of the vehicle which transports such product or o…

This chapter does not apply to any market in Los Angeles County.