New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Chapter I - Milk Control
Subchapter A - Dairy Products (Article 4, Agriculture and Markets Law)
Part 6 - Sampling And Testing Milk For Component Content
Section 6.1 - Definition
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to the terms used in this Part, unless the context unambiguously indicates otherwise.
(a) Bulk milk pick-up truck means a vehicle used by a milk receiver to pick up milk from dairy farms.
(b) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets of the State of New York.
(c) Component means the milk fat, protein, lactose, nonfat solids and/or total solids in milk. Depending upon the context, the term component may include more than one component of milk.
(d) Dairy farmer means a person who operates a dairy farm and produces milk, and such term, when used in the plural, shall also encompass a cooperative of dairy farmers.
(e) He means he or she, him means him or her and his means his or hers.
(f) Milk means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy animals.
(g) Milk dealer means a person who purchases milk directly from dairy farmers and who is required or has agreed to pay for such milk based upon the amount of a component or components therein.
(h) Preservative means a substance that, when added to a sample of milk, maintains the sample's integrity, has no affect upon the amount of milk components therein and has no affect upon the proper functioning of electronic equipment used to determine the amount of a milk component or of milk components.
(i) Standard Methods means Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products, 16th edition, 1992, published by the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC 20005. A copy of Standard Methods is available for public inspection at the Division of Milk Control, Department of Agriculture and Markets, One Winners Circle, Albany, NY 12235 and at the Department of State, 41 State Street, Albany, NY 12231.
(j) Temperature control sample means a sample of milk taken from the bulk tank of the first dairy farm from which milk is picked up on each day when milk is picked up and which is taken in compliance with the applicable provisions of Standard Methods.
(k) Test, when used as a verb, means to analyze a sample of milk to determine the amount of a milk component or milk components therein.
(l) Test in question means the test of a universal sample that varies 0.5 percent or more from the last unquestioned test.
(m) Universal sample means a sample of milk taken from a bulk tank on a dairy farm, in compliance with the applicable provisions of Standard Methods.
(n) Unquestioned test means a test of a universal sample the results of which are, based upon the facts and circumstances, accurate.
