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Food & Agr. Code, § 34591 · Article 4. Containers for Particular Products

Food & Agr. Code, § 34591

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

Except as otherwise provided in this article, it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any market milk, skim milk, flavored milk, flavored dairy drink, buttermilk, or cultured buttermilk to the retail trade, unless the product is contained in a standard milk bottle or in a single service container which has been mechanically filled and capped or sealed in a milkroom which is properly designed and equipped as approved by the director. The pouring lip of standard milk bottles used to package market milk and milk products sold at retail shall be covered at the time of capping or closure to at least its largest diameter by the cap or cover. A single service container shall meet the specifications of the United States Public Health Service Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance Recommendations.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 203, Sec. 1.

Source of truth

Edition
As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Official file
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAC&sectionNum=34591.
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