SECTIONS 35861-35863 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 35861-35863

35861. Guaranteed raw milk is market milk which conforms to all of
the following minimum requirements:
(a) The health of the cows and goats shall be determined at least
once each month by an official representative of an approved milk
inspection service, or a milk inspection service which is established
by the director.
(b) It shall be produced on dairy farms which score not less than
90 percent on the dairy farm scorecard.
(c) It shall be bottled on the premises where produced and
delivered in containers which have the pouring lip completely
protected from contamination.
(d) It shall be cooled as provided in Section 35782, and so
maintained until it is delivered to the consumer, at which time it
shall contain not more than 10,000 bacteria per milliliter or not
more than 10 coliform bacteria per milliliter.
(e) It shall be sold to the consumer within 30 hours after
production and labeled to indicate the date of sale to the consumer.

35862. All persons who come in contact with guaranteed raw milk
shall exercise scrupulous cleanliness and shall not be afflicted with
any communicable disease or in a condition to disseminate the germs
of any communicable disease which is liable to be conveyed by milk.
The absence of such germs in all such persons shall be determined by
bacteriological and physical examination by a health department which
maintains an approved milk inspection service, or other person or
laboratory which is approved in writing by the department, conducted
at the time of employment and every six months thereafter in a manner
which is approved by the director.

35863. Guaranteed pasteurized milk shall conform to all the
requirements for guaranteed raw milk, except that it shall contain
not more than 3,000 bacteria per milliliter at the time of delivery
to the consumer.