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2021 Florida Statutes (Including 2021B Session)

Title XXXIII REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS
Chapter 502 MILK, MILK PRODUCTS, AND FROZEN DESSERTS Entire Chapter
SECTION 012
Definitions.
F.S. 502.012
502.012 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) “Bulk milk pickup tanker” means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, and necessary attachments, used by a milk hauler to transport bulk raw milk for pasteurization from a dairy farm to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station.
(2) “Dairy farm” means any place or premises where one or more cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, or other hooved mammals are kept and from which a part or all of the milk is provided, sold, or offered for sale.
(3) “Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
(4) “Frozen dessert” means a specific standardized frozen dessert described in 21 C.F.R. part 135 and any other food defined by rule of the department that resembles such standardized frozen dessert but does not conform to the specific description of such standardized frozen dessert in 21 C.F.R. part 135. The term includes, but is not limited to, a quiescently frozen confection, a quiescently frozen dairy confection, a frozen dietary dairy dessert, and a frozen dietary dessert.
(5) “Frozen desserts manufacturer” means a person who manufactures, processes, converts, partially freezes, or freezes any mix or frozen dessert for distribution or sale.
(6) “Frozen desserts plant” means any location or premises at which frozen desserts or mix are manufactured, processed, or frozen for distribution or sale at wholesale.
(7) “Frozen desserts retail establishment” means any location or premises, including a retail store, stand, hotel, boardinghouse, restaurant, vehicle, or mobile unit, at which frozen desserts are frozen, partially frozen, or dispensed for sale at retail.
(8) “Frozen dietary dairy dessert” or “frozen dietary dessert” means a food for any special dietary use, prepared by freezing, with or without agitation, and composed of a pasteurized mix that may contain fat, protein, carbohydrates, natural or artificial sweeteners, flavoring, stabilizers, emulsifiers, vitamins, and minerals.
(9) “Grade ‘A’ pasteurized milk ordinance” means the document entitled “Grade ‘A’ Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration,” including all associated appendices, as adopted by department rule.
(10) “Imitation milk and imitation milk products” means those foods that have the physical characteristics, such as taste, flavor, body, texture, or appearance, of milk or milk products as defined in this chapter and the Grade “A” pasteurized milk ordinance but do not come within the definition of “milk” or “milk products” and are nutritionally inferior to the product imitated.
(11) “Milk” means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, or other hooved mammals.
(12) “Milk distributor” means any person who offers for sale or sells to another person any milk or milk product.
(13) “Milk products” means products made with milk that is processed in some manner, including being whipped, acidified, cultured, concentrated, lactose-reduced, or sodium-reduced or aseptically processed, or having the addition or subtraction of milkfat, the addition of safe and suitable microbial organisms, or the addition of safe and suitable optional ingredients for protein, vitamin, or mineral fortification. “Milk products” do not include products such as evaporated milk, condensed milk, eggnog in a rigid metal container, dietary products, infant formula, or ice cream and other desserts.
(14) “Milkfat” or “butterfat” means the fat contained in milk.
(15) “Milk hauler” means any person who transports raw milk or raw milk products to or from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station.
(16) “Milk plant” means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, aseptically processed, bottled, or prepared for distribution.
(17) “Milk plant operator” means any person responsible for receiving, processing, pasteurizing, or packaging milk and milk products, or performing any other related operation.
(18) “Milk producer” means any person who operates a dairy farm and provides, sells, or offers for sale milk to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station.
(19) “Milk tank truck” means either a bulk milk pickup tanker or a milk transport tank.
(20) “Milk transport tank” means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a milk hauler to transport bulk shipments of milk from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station to another milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station.
(21) “Quiescently frozen confection” means a clean and wholesome frozen, sweetened, flavored product that, while being frozen, was not stirred or agitated (generally known as quiescent freezing). The confection may be acidulated with food-grade acid, may contain milk solids or water, or may be made with or without added harmless pure or imitation flavoring and with or without harmless coloring. The finished product must not contain more than 0.5 percent by weight of stabilizer composed of wholesome, edible material and must not contain less than 17 percent by weight of total food solids. In the production of the confection, processing or mixing before quiescent freezing that develops in the finished confection mix any physical expansion in excess of 10 percent may not be used.
(22) “Quiescently frozen dairy confection” means a clean and wholesome frozen product made from water, milk products, and sugar, with added harmless pure or imitation flavoring, with or without added harmless coloring, with or without added stabilizer, or with or without added emulsifier, that, while being frozen, was not stirred or agitated (generally known as quiescent freezing). The confection must not contain less than 13 percent by weight of total milk solids, less than 33 percent by weight of total food solids, more than 0.5 percent by weight of stabilizer, or more than 0.2 percent by weight of emulsifier. Stabilizer and emulsifier must be composed of wholesome, edible material. In the production of a quiescently frozen dairy confection, processing or mixing before quiescently freezing that develops in the finished confection mix any physical expansion in excess of 10 percent may not be used.
(23) “Raw milk” means unprocessed milk.
(24) “Receiving station” means any place, premises, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting.
(25) “Substitute milk and substitute milk products” means those foods that have the physical characteristics, such as taste, flavor, body, texture, or appearance, of milk or milk products as defined in this chapter and the Grade “A” pasteurized milk ordinance but do not come within the definition of “milk” or “milk products” and are nutritionally equivalent to the product for which they are substitutes.
(26) “Transfer station” means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are transferred directly from one milk tank truck to another.
(27) “Washing station” means any place, premises, or establishment where milk tank trucks are cleaned and sanitized.
History.—s. 2, ch. 67-263; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 70-247; ss. 2, 3, ch. 71-211; s. 187, ch. 71-377; s. 1, ch. 73-356; s. 1, ch. 75-14; s. 1, ch. 76-282; s. 1, ch. 77-174; ss. 1, 7, ch. 80-83; s. 4, ch. 85-94; s. 1, ch. 91-64; s. 5, ch. 93-68; ss. 1, 15, ch. 94-92; s. 12, ch. 2001-279; s. 4, ch. 2007-67; s. 18, ch. 2011-206.