Sale or possession of milk or cream to which water has been added. A producer, producer-distributor, distributor, nonprocessing distributor or dairy products plant licensee shall not offer or expose for sale, sell, exchange, deliver, possess or control with intent to sell, expose for sale or deliver, purchase for resale or receive for manufacture, any milk or cream to which water has been added, as evidenced by official State Department of Agriculture laboratory testing, except as may be permitted by the department in

(1) The reconstitution of fluid milk; or

(2) The transportation of the product containing added water to a dairy products plant for recovery of the milk food solids. [1955 c.714 §10; 1957 c.346 §1; 1979 c.320 §3; 1999 c.197 §16]