HB-6393, As Passed House, December 21, 2018
HB-6393, As Passed Senate, December 20, 2018
September 26, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Alexander 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 2016 PA 259.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 6. As used in this act:
(a)
"Pasteurized milk ordinance" or "PMO" means the 2013
edition
of the Grade "A"
Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, 2017
revision,
recommendations
of the published by the United States 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,
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 that owns or operates a
dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm
including
a person who that markets milk on behalf of a producer
under a marketing agreement.
(e)
"Receiving station" means any a 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 this state as a legal entity registered to do business within
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, the United States
Public Health Service, the United States 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 or the United States 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 published by the American Public Health Association,
incorporated by reference.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.