New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE › Chapter 71 - GRADES AND STANDARDS › Subchapter 2 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES › Section 2:71-2.3 - Fee and reporting requirements for Jersey Fresh Quality Grading Program participation

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A non-refundable fee of $ 30.00 shall accompany the application form and shall be made payable to the New Jersey Farm Products Publicity Fund.
(b) Licensees packing Jersey Fresh Quality Grading program commodities may mark with labels, rubber stamp or use imprinted containers to identify those commodities as being packed under the "logo" program. For required markings, see 2:71-2.5.
(c) A copy of each shipping invoice or a statement shall be supplied to the Department by the licensed person, firm, partnership, corporation or co-operative that transfers ownership of containers or stamps bearing the "logo" to the licensed registrant.
(d) Each licensed packer shall submit by December 31 of each license year a report, on forms supplied by the Department, indicating the number of containers packed by commodity under the Jersey Fresh Quality Grading Program. Failure to timely supply the above may be cause for denial or delay of licensing for the following licensing year.
(e) Producers shall send to the Division of Marketing and Development, by the 10th of each month, on a form provided by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, the following information for the month prior: the total hundredweight of raw milk (converted to gallons) received from New Jersey dairy farms and the number of pints, quarts, half gallons and gallons bottled in containers bearing the "Jersey Fresh" logo, also converted to gallons. The information reported shall be considered confidential and used only to determine compliance with this chapter as to the use of New Jersey-produced milk.
(f) Producers shall send to the Division of Marketing and Development, by the 10th of each month, on a form provided by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, the following information for the month just prior: the total hundredweight of New Jersey-produced milk used, the formulas used in the manufacture of products bearing the "Jersey Fresh" or "Premium Jersey Fresh" logo, and the total amount, in pounds, of the above products produced. The information reported shall be considered confidential and used only to determine compliance with this chapter as to the use of New Jersey-produced milk and ingredients.
(g) Wineries shall send to the Division of Marketing and Development, by the 30th of each January, the gallons of wine sold and ingredients used for all wine sold under the "Jersey Fresh" logo during the previous calendar year. This report will list the wine by varieties also converted to gallons. The information reported shall be considered confidential and used only to determine compliance with this chapter as to the use of New Jersey-produced wine and ingredients.
(h) Each grower licensed to market or sell commodities in accordance to the grading standards in 2:71-2.5(d)  shall submit by December 31 of each license year a report, on forms supplied by the Department, indicating the pounds by commodity of product to be packed under the Jersey Fresh Quality Grading program and to whom each commodity was sold.