Cal. FAC § 33762
This is the official text of Cal. FAC § 33762, part of California’s Food and Agricultural Code — regulates farming, food safety, and agricultural commerce.
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Official statutory text
Milk or cream, or any product of milk or cream, shall not be received, by a milk products plant if such milk or cream, or product of milk or cream, comes within any of the following classes:
(a) Is impure, tainted, unclean, adulterated, or unwholesome.
(b) Has reached an advanced stage of fermentation.
(c) Shows a state of putrefactive fermentation.
(d) Contains foreign substances which are detrimental to the quality of the product manufactured from the milk or cream or the product of milk or cream.
(a) Is impure, tainted, unclean, adulterated, or unwholesome.
(b) Has reached an advanced stage of fermentation.
(c) Shows a state of putrefactive fermentation.
(d) Contains foreign substances which are detrimental to the quality of the product manufactured from the milk or cream or the product of milk or cream.
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