The department is hereby empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations as it may consider necessary in order to insure the public health, safety and welfare and for the enforcement and carrying into effect of any provision of this act including regulation of the following:

(a) Holding times and heating temperatures for pasteurizing milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(b) repasteurization of milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(c) handling pasteurized milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(d) overflow, spilled or leaked milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(e) time limits for pasteurizing milk and cream;

(f) health and cleanliness of dairy animals;

(g) health and cleanliness of workers handling milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(h) construction and maintenance of dairy farms and milk plants;

(i) cooling and storage of milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(j) construction and cleaning of utensils and equipment used for handling and transporting milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(k) water supplies for dairy farms and milk plants;

(l) toilets and waste disposal at dairy farms and milk plants;

(m) indicating and recording thermometers and temperature records;

(n) smoking and expectorating in milk plants and dairy farms;

(o) bottle caps and containers for milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(p) chemical and bacteriological quality of milk, milk products and fluid milk products;

(q) protection from contamination of utensils and equipment used in handling or transporting milk, milk products and fluid milk products, and the products contained therein;

(r) the department may promulgate such other rules and regulations as are necessary to enforce the provisions of this act.

L.1964, c. 62, s. 20.