CHAPTER 116: MEAT AND MILK

Section

Sale of Meat

   116.01   Inspection required

   116.02   Violation prohibited

Sale of Milk; Pasteurization

   116.05   Definitions

   116.06   Registration of sellers required; exception

   116.07   Application for registration; certificate

   116.08   Certificate number required on vehicles

   116.09   Pasteurization required; exception

   116.10   Violation prohibited

   116.99   Penalty

SALE OF MEAT

§ 116.01 Inspection required.

   No meat shall be sold for human food or offered for sale or held with the intention of selling the same in any market or store in the town unless the animal furnishing the meat has been examined and approved by the director of health, except such animals or carcasses as have been inspected and approved by the United States Government or inspectors of this state.

('66 Code, § 40-1) Penalty, see § 116.99

§ 116.02 Violation prohibited.

   No person shall violate any provision of § 116.01.

('66 Code, § 40.2) Penalty, see § 116.99

SALE OF MILK; PASTEURIZATION

§ 116.05 Definitions.

   For the purpose of §§ 116.05 to 116.10, inclusive, unless otherwise specifically provided, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively:

   (A)   "Cream." That portion of milk which contains not less than 16% milk fat.

   (B)    "Dealer." Any person who receives milk from producers at a plant where it is weighed, tested, pasteurized, bottled, canned or packaged and then sold or delivered to any consumer or store in the town.

   (C)   "Milk:"

      (1)   For the purpose of § 116.09. The lacteal secretions obtained by complete milking of cows or goats.

      (2)   For the purpose of §§ 116.05 to 116.08, inclusive. Whole fluid milk.

   (D)   "Milk products." Any product made by the addition of any substance to milk or cream and designated as a milk product by the milk regulation board of this state.

   (E)   "Pasteurization, pasteurized, etc." The process of heating every particle of milk to at least 143ºF. and holding at such temperature for at least 15 seconds, in approved and properly operated equipment; provided that nothing contained in this definition shall be construed as debarring any other process which has been demonstrated to be equally efficient and is approved by the dairy and food commission and milk regulation board of this state.

   (F)   "Producer." Any person who owns or controls one or more cows or goats, a part of all the milk from which is sold or offered for sale.

   (G)   "Store." A grocery, restaurant, drugstore or any mercantile establishment which sells milk.

('66 Code, §§ 40-7 and 40-11)