Oregon Statutes 621.088 – Sale or possession of milk or cream to which water has been added
A producer, producer-distributor, distributor, nonprocessing distributor or dairy products plant licensee shall not offer or expose for sale, sell, exchange, deliver, possess or control with intent to sell, expose for sale or deliver, purchase for resale or receive for manufacture, any milk or cream to which water has been added, as evidenced by official State Department of Agriculture laboratory testing, except as may be permitted by the department in:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 621.088
- Cream: means that portion of milk consisting of milk fat. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Distributor: means a person who purchases only unpasteurized milk and pasteurizes or otherwise processes that milk, then bottles and distributes the milk for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Fluid milk: means milk and any other product made by the addition of a substance to milk or to a liquid form of milk product if the milk or other product is produced, processed, distributed, sold or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Milk: means the lacteal secretion of cows, sheep and goats. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Nonprocessing distributor: means a person who sells fluid milk in consumer-sized units under the person's own brand or trade name after the milk has been processed and packaged by a distributor or producer-distributor. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Producer: means a person who engages in the production of unpasteurized milk on a dairy farm and does not bottle the milk on the premises where production occurs, in pasteurized or unpasteurized form and for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
(1) The reconstitution of fluid milk; or
(2) The transportation of the product containing added water to a dairy products plant for recovery of the milk food solids. [1955 c.714 § 10; 1957 c.346 § 1; 1979 c.320 § 3; 1999 c.197 § 16]
[1955 c.25 § 2; 1973 c.99 § 1; 1983 c.55 § 1; 1999 c.197 § 17; 1999 c.937 § 2a; renumbered 621.012 in 1999]
[Amended by 1959 c.241 § 1; repealed by 1999 c.197 § 61]