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Food & Agr. Code, § 38601 · Article 21. Pasteurized Concentrated Milk

Food & Agr. Code, § 38601

Verbatim from the official edition

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

Pasteurized concentrated milk is market milk which has been reduced to a semiliquid state by the removal of a portion of its water content by the aid of heat or the product derived from combining concentrated skim milk derived from market milk with market cream. It shall contain not less than 9.9 percent of milk fat and not less than 24 percent of milk solids not fat. It shall otherwise meet and be subject to all the requirements and standards for market milk, except as follows:

(a) It may be pasteurized before concentration but shall be pasteurized after concentration.

(b) It shall contain not more than 20,000 bacteria per gram.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.

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=38601.
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