§ 46. Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared that the dairy industry is a paramount industry of the state and the production, processing, packaging, distribution and sale of milk products has become an enterprise of vast economic importance to the state and of vital importance to the consuming public of the state, and which […]
§ 46-a. Regulations. The commissioner shall, after public hearing, promulgate definitions and standards for milk and milk products, and for products other than milk and milk products, which products are similar in appearance, odor or taste to milk and milk products, together with rules and regulations for the packaging and labeling of all such products, […]
§ 47. Care and feed of cows, and care and keeping of milk. No person shall keep cows, for the production of milk for market or for sale or exchange, or for manufacturing the milk or cream from the same into any article of food, in a crowded or unhealthy condition or in unhealthful or […]
§ 47-a. Regulating the handling and sale of products made from recovered milk fat and solids. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, it shall not be unlawful to recover milk fat and other milk solids (a) from mixtures of milk and potable water produced in the operation of high-temperature short-time pasteurizers or (b) from […]
§ 48. Receptacles to be cleansed before returning; receptacles may be seized; evidence; violation. Whenever any can or receptacle is used for transporting or conveying milk, cream or curd to market for the purpose of selling or furnishing the same for consumption as human food, or for manufacturing into human food, which can or receptacle, […]
§ 49. Insanitary cans and receptacles condemned. All cans, or receptacles used in the sale of milk, cream or curd for consumption, or in transporting or shipping the same to market or the delivery thereof to purchasers for consumption as human food, when found by the commissioner or his assistants or agents to be in […]
§ 50-e. Legislative finding and declaration of policy. It is hereby declared that cream, half and half, milk and mixtures of milk and cream have long been accepted by the consuming public; recognized as wholesome and nutritious articles of food, and their composition generally understood by consumers. Advances in food technology have resulted in the […]
§ 50-f. Definitions and standards of identity. As used in this section the terms “melloream” or “a vegetable oil blend” mean any substance, mixture or compound regardless of the name by which it is represented, which contains vegetable fats or oils and proteins derived from animal or vegetable sources, and whose appearance, odor and taste […]
§ 50-g. Licenses to manufacturers of melloream. 1. No person shall engage in the manufacture or production of melloream in the state of New York or for sale or distribution in the state of New York unless duly licensed as provided in this article or unless licensed as a milk dealer pursuant to article twenty-one […]
§ 50-h. Entry, inspection and investigation. Any person designated for the purpose shall have access to and may enter at all reasonable hours all places where melloream is being manufactured, packaged or stored for sale or distribution in the state of New York, where melloream is otherwise being handled or sold in the state of […]
§ 50-i. Labeling of melloream and vegetable oil blends. Whenever the brand name of melloream or a vegetable oil blend, as defined in section fifty-f, appears on the container so conspicuously as to be seen under customary conditions of purchase, there shall immediately and conspicuously precede or follow the brand name or product designation without […]
§ 50-j. Serving melloream, vegetable oil blends and cream in restaurants and other public eating places. Whenever melloream, a vegetable oil blend, cream, half and half, milk or a mixture of milk and cream is served in a restaurant, hotel, boarding house, lunch counter, place of entertainment, public eating place or any establishment where food […]
§ 50-k. Rules and regulations. The commissioner shall from time to time, after inquiry and public hearing, promulgate and adopt rules and regulations to supplement and give full effect to the provisions of section fifty-e. Such rules and regulations shall establish sanitary regulations pertaining to the manufacture, packing and distribution of melloream and vegetable oil […]
§ 51. Milk inspection. The commissioner or his agent, in inspecting milk for the purpose of analysis to determine the percentage of fat or other milk solids, shall take duplicate samples thereof and shall seal both samples, and shall tender, and, if accepted, deliver one sample to the person from whom the milk was taken. […]
§ 52. Presumptions in regard to cream and skim milk. When cream is separated or skimmed from milk at any station or establishment where milk is received from producers for the purpose of selling the same or shipping the same to market for consumption as food and the supply of milk on hand thereat at […]
§ 54. Regulations in regard to manufactories, plants or places where milk or cream is brought or received. No person shall sell, supply or bring to any butter or cheese factory or to any plant or place which manufactures a food product from milk or which ships or sells milk for consumption any milk diluted […]
§ 55. Skimmed milk, whey, buttermilk or milk container or plant equipment rinsings to be heated before being used for feeding. Any person operating any butter factory, cheese factory or other milk plant, before delivering to any person any skimmed milk, whey, buttermilk or milk container or plant equipment rinsings, to be used for the […]
§ 56. Determination of the content of milk and/or cream where purchase or settlement therefor is made on the basis of such content. 1. The commissioner shall, after public hearing, prescribe, by rules and regulations, the methods, equipment, and procedures, including the calibration and use of electronic equipment, which shall be used in determining the […]
§ 56-a. Taking of composite sample; record of tests. Corporations, associations or persons buying milk and/or cream from producers of milk and/or cream to be paid for on the basis of the percentage of a component or components of such milk or cream and taking samples therefrom to form a composite sample to be tested […]
§ 56-b. Determination of bacteria in milk and/or cream where purchase or settlement is made therefor on the basis of bacterial count. In milk-receiving or manufacturing plants and other places using methods approved by the commissioner for determining the bacterial count in milk and/or cream, where the result of such determination is to be used […]
