The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-08-06
MILK CODE
Ordinance No. 3S4

AN ORDINANCE defining milk;
certain milk products; milk
producers; "pasteurization"; pro-
hibiting the sale of adulterated
and miSbranded milk and milk
products; requiring permits and
licenses for sale of milk and milk
products; regulating the inspection
of dairy farms and milk plants, the
testing, grading, labelling, placard-
ing, pasteurization, regarding, dis
tribution, sale and denaturing of
milk and milk products; providing
for the publishing of milk grades;
regulating the construction of flu
ture dairies and milk plants and
providing a penalty for violation
hereof and repeating all ordinances
I'm conflict herewith.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KEN
NEWICK:
Section 1: Definitions:
The following definitions shall
apply in the Interpretation and the
enforcement of this ordinance.
MILK CODE: This ordinance may
he referred to as the Milk Code of
the City of Kennewick 1t is to be
interpreted according to the Milk
Ordinance and Code recommended
by the United States Public Health
Service, as now constituted or here
after amended, two copies of which
will remain with the City Clerk and
one copy with the City Health Of
ficer of the City of Kennewick.
0A) MILK: Milk is hereby defin-
ed to be the lacteral secretion OBJ
tanned by the complete milking of
one or more healthy COWS properly
fed and kept, excluding that obtain
ed within fifteen days before and
five DAYS after oalving, or such long
er period as may be necessary to
, render the milk practically colo
strlm free; which contains not less
than eight and one-haf percent
(81s@o) of solids not fat, and not
less than three and one half percent
(31s9o) of milk fat.
( (B) MILK OR GUTTER FAT:
Milk fat or butter fat is the fat of
milk.
(C) CREAM: Cream is a portion
of milk, contains not less than eigh-
teen percent (189o) milk fat, and
the acidity of which is not more than
0209o, expressed as Tactic acid.
Dl SKINNED MILK: SKINNED
milk is milk from which substantial
ly all the milk fat has been removed.
l(E) CHOCOLATE MILK: Choco-
late milk is grade A milk to which
;has been added in a sanitary man
ner a chocolate syrup, composed of
wholesome ingredients.
(F) BUTTERMMK: Buterunilk is
the product which remains when fat
is removed from milk or cream in
the process of churning. It con-
tains not less than eight and five
tenths percent $500 of milk solids,
not fat.
(G) CULTURED BUTTERMILK:
Cultured buttenmilk is the product
resulting from the souring or treat
ment by a tactic acid culture of milk
or milk products. Ut contains not
less than $500 of milk solids not
fat, and may contain not over 0.25%
edible gelatin.
(H) MILK PRODUCTS: Milk pro-
ducts shall he taken to mean and in
aclude cream, SKINNED milk, choco-
late milk, buttermflk and cultured
bIttern1ilk. &=ssE
III PRESERVATION The term
"paSteuriZatiOn, and "paSteurized"
and similar terms shall be taken to
refer to the process of heating every
particle of milk or milk products to
"a temperature of not less than 142
degrees F., and holding such tenn
perature for not less than 80 min
utes in pasteurization apparatus ap-
proved by the health officer, provid-
ed that approval shall be limited to
such apparatus which requires "a
combined holder and indicating
thermometer temperature tolerance
of not more than ~ degrees F., as
shown by official tests with suitable
testing equipment, and provided
that such apparatus shall be operat-
ed as directed 10y the health officer
and so that the indicating therno-
meters and the recording ther-
mometer charts both indicate tenn
perature of not less than 1431s de-
grees f., continuously throughout
THE holding period, providing that
nothing contained in this definition
shall be constructed as disbarring
any other process which has been
demonstrated as of at least equal
efficiency and is approved by the
state health authority.
e.. (J) ADUITERATED MILK AND
MILK PRODUCTS: Any substance
claiming to be in any milk or milk
products defined in this ordinance
but not conforming with the defini-
ton as given in this ordinance shall
be deemed adulterated and mis-
branded.
Kp MILK PRODUCER: A milk
producer is amy person who owns o.
controls one or more COWS, a part OF
all of the milk or milk products
from which is sold and delivered ito
another person.
Gy MILK DISTRIBUTOR: A
milk distributor is any person who
has in possession, offers for sale
sells, sells or delivers to another any