196.525. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

196.525. Definitions, terminology, and standards of identity provided inTitle 7, Code of Federal Regulations, Agriculture, Part 2858, subpart A-V andTitle 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Food and Drugs, Parts 131 and 133,shall have precedence unless further defined herein. Additions and exceptionsto the definitions contained therein shall include:

(1) "Agent" means any duly authorized representative of the Missouridepartment of agriculture under the authority of the director;

(2) "Bulk milk truck operator" means any qualified individual who, asoperator of a bulk milk transportation vehicle, is licensed by the departmentto make organoleptic inspection, and to sample and test milk as it iscollected from dairy farm bulk milk cooling tanks;

(3) "Dairy farm" means any place or premises where one or more cows orgoats are kept, and from which a part or all of the milk or milk products areprovided, sold or offered for sale to a milk plant, transfer station orreceiving station for manufacturing purposes;

(4) "Dairy manufacturing plant" means any processing or manufacturingplant utilizing milk, or a major ingredient thereof, in the production ofproducts for human consumption. The items pertaining to ice cream and frozendessert products manufacturing plants regulated by the department of healthand senior services contained in sections 196.851 to 196.918, and pertainingto grade "A" fluid milk plants regulated by the state milk board contained insections 196.931 to 196.959 are exempt from this definition;

(5) "Dairy product" means any product or by-product which has as itsprecursor milk or an ingredient exclusive to milk, with the exception ofproducts or by-products which are subject to the provisions of sections196.851 to 196.918, relating to ice cream and frozen food products, andsections 196.931 to 196.959, as regulated by the state milk board;

(6) "Department" or "department of agriculture" means the department ofagriculture of the state of Missouri;

(7) "Director" means the ranking authority or administrator of thedepartment of agriculture, or the representative or agent of the director;

(8) "Department of health and senior services" means the department ofhealth and senior services of the state of Missouri;

(9) "Fieldman" means any qualified person who is duly authorized as afield representative of a processing or manufacturing plant or producercooperative, whose responsibilities include procurement and quality control,and who is duly licensed by the department;

(10) "Grader" means any qualified individual licensed by the departmentto sample, test and grade milk or cream;

(11) "Manufacturing milk" is all milk and cream produced and madeavailable for market that is not under the inspection supervision of theMissouri state milk board as it administers sections 196.931 to 196.959;

(12) "Person" shall mean any individual, plant operator, partnership,corporation, company, firm, trustee, association or institution;

(13) "Producer" means one who milks or supervises the milking of one ormore cows or goats, and is legally entitled to market the productiontherefrom;

(14) "Receiving plant or station" means the delivery point for milk andcream collected from, or delivered by, one or more producers;

(15) "Regulations" means the rules and official orders authorized andpromulgated by the director of agriculture according to the provisions ofchapter 536, RSMo, in accordance with the provisions of sections 196.520 to196.610, along with other regulations of state and federal agencies;

(16) "State milk board" means the board created by section 196.941, andauthorized to administer the provisions of sections 196.931 to 196.959;

(17) "Test or analysis" means the inclusion of prescribed sampling,sample preservation and preparation with appropriate analytical procedure toreach the desired objective; such procedures shall be used as are set forth inthe latest editions of the "Official Methods of Analysis of the Association ofOfficial Analytical Chemists" and the "Standard Methods for the Examination ofDairy Products".