SB-0477, As Passed Senate, October 8, 2015
September 10, 2015, Introduced by Senators GREEN and HUNE and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend 2001 PA 266, entitled
"Grade A milk law of 2001,"
by amending section 6 (MCL 288.476), as amended by 2008 PA 136.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 6. As used in this act:
(a)
"Pasteurized milk ordinance" or "PMO" means the 2007 2013
edition
of the grade A pasteurized milk ordinance, Grade "A"
Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, recommendations of the United States
department
of health and human services, public health service/food
and
drug administration, Department
of Health and Human Services,
Public Health Service/Food and Drug Administration, with
administrative
procedures and appendices, set forth in the public
health
service/food and drug administration Public Health
Service/Food and Drug Administration, publication no. 229.
(b) "Person" means an individual, partnership, company,
limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee,
educational institution, state or local government unit, or
corporation.
(c) "Processor" means the owner or operator of a milk plant.
(d) "Producer" means a person who owns or operates a dairy
farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including
a
person who markets milk on behalf of a producer pursuant to under
a marketing agreement.
(e) "Receiving station" means any place, premises, or
establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled,
stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting.
(f) "Registered name" means either a name that is registered
as "doing business as" at the county clerk's office in the county
in which the producer or processor resides or that is registered
with
the state of Michigan this
state as a legal entity registered
to
do business within the this
state under an assumed name.
Registered name includes, but is not limited to, incorporations,
corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability
partnerships, and similar entities.
(g) "Retail" means selling or offering for sale dairy products
directly to a consumer.
(h) "Retail food establishment" means an operation that sells
or offers to sell food directly to a consumer. Retail food
establishment includes both a retail grocery and a food service
establishment but does not include a food processing plant.
(i) "Sample transfer instrument" means any of the following:
(i) Individually wrapped, sterile, single-service sampling
tubes.
(ii) Stainless steel metal dippers, with long handles having
capacities of 10 milliliters or greater.
(iii) Sampling devices approved by the director.
(j) "Sanitary standards" means the dairy equipment
construction standards or accepted dairy system operating practices
formulated by 1 of the following:
(i) 3-A sanitary standards committees representing the
international
association for food protection, International
Association
for Food Protection, the United States public
health
service,
Public Health Service, the United States department of
agriculture,
Department of Agriculture, and the dairy industry
committee as approved by the director.
(ii) If sanitary standards are not available for a particular
piece of equipment, general sanitary construction standards for
dairy
equipment formulated by the United States department of
agriculture
Department of Agriculture or the food and drug
administration
Food and Drug Administration as approved by the
director.
(iii) The equipment or practice is approved by bulletin of the
director on a case-by-case basis.
(k) "Sell-by date" means the recommended last date of sale.
(l) "Single service containers and closures" means single use
containers or parts of single use containers that become milk
product contact surfaces when used for the storage, shipping, or
marketing of milk or milk products.
(m) "Standard methods" means the seventeenth edition of
"Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products", a
publication
of the American public health association, Public
Health Association, incorporated by reference.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.