Minnesota Session Laws - 1986, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1986 

                        CHAPTER 354-H.F.No. 1838 
           An act relating to agriculture; defining "milk," "skim 
          milk," and "lowfat milk"; amending Minnesota Statutes 
          1984, section 32.391, subdivision 1.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1984, section 32.391, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [MILK; SKIM MILK; LOWFAT MILK; FLUID MILK 
PRODUCTS; GOAT MILK.] Milk is defined as the whole, fresh, clean 
lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by 
the complete milking of one or more healthy cows.  When prepared 
for market in fluid final package form for beverage use, milk 
shall contain not less than 8.25 8.7 percent milk solids-not-fat 
and not less than 3.25 percent of milk fat.  The name "milk", 
unqualified, means cow's milk.  
    Skim milk is milk from which milk fat has been removed so 
that its milk fat content is less than .25 percent.  Skim milk 
in final package form for beverage use must contain at least 
nine percent milk solids-not-fat, for a total of at least 9.25 
percent milk solids.  Skim milk may be homogenized.  
    Lowfat milk is milk from which milk fat has been removed so 
that its milk fat content is either one or two percent, within 
limits of good manufacturing practices.  Lowfat milk in final 
package form for beverage use must contain at least ten percent 
milk solids-not-fat.  Lowfat milk may be homogenized.  
    Milk solids-not-fat may be added to fluid milk products to 
meet the above standards from the following sources:  
partially-skimmed milk, skim milk, concentrated 
partially-skimmed milk, concentrated skim milk, and nonfat dry 
milk, used alone or in any combination. 
    "Milk solids-not-fat" is the portion of a milk product that 
is not water and is not fat as determined by procedures outlined 
in Standard Methods For The Examination Of Dairy Products 
(fifteenth edition).  
    Fluid milk products shall be taken to mean and include 
cream, sour cream, half and half, reconstituted half and half, 
concentrated milk, concentrated milk products, skim milk, nonfat 
milk, chocolate flavored milk, chocolate flavored drink, 
chocolate flavored reconstituted milk, chocolate flavored 
reconstituted drink, buttermilk, cultured buttermilk, cultured 
milk, vitamin D milk, reconstituted or recombined milk, 
reconstituted cream, reconstituted skim milk, homogenized milk, 
and any other fluid milk product made by the addition of any 
substance to milk or to any of the above enumerated fluid milk 
products, when the same is declared to be a fluid milk product 
by rule or regulation promulgated by the commissioner.  
    Goat milk is a whole, fresh, clean lacteal secretion free 
from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more 
healthy goats.  
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act is effective on the first day of the third month 
after the governor certifies by executive order published in the 
State Register that all states in which processors licensed in 
Minnesota sell milk have in effect content requirements 
identical to those in section 1. 
    Approved March 19, 1986