Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 55-89 - Food, Lodging, and Recreation Safety › Chapter ATCP 65 - Milk And Milk Products › Subchapter I - Definitions and General Requirements › Section ATCP 65.01 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Abnormal milk" means milk that is
				  visibly changed in color, odor, or texture, or milk that contains chemical,
				  medicinal, or radioactive agents, which may be deleterious to human
				  health.
(2) "Aseptic processing and
				  packaging system" means a system that is intended to fill commercially
				  sterilized and cooled milk or milk products into pre-sterilized containers, and
				  then hermetically seal each container with a pre-sterilized closure, in an
				  atmosphere free of microorganisms.
(3) "Automated milking installation" or "AMI"
				  means a robotic milking system that identifies, prepares and milks lactating
				  animals; detects and segregates abnormal milk; and automatically cleans and
				  sanitizes all milk contact surfaces, at least once daily and after the
				  segregation of abnormal milk, such that normal milk is not
				  adulterated.
(4) "Bulk milk tanker"
				  means a mobile bulk container used to transport milk, fluid milk products,
				  whey, or whey cream in bulk from a dairy farm, or to or from a dairy plant, in
				  this state. "Bulk milk tanker" includes a container, which is permanently
				  mounted on a motor vehicle or that is designed to be towed by a motor vehicle,
				  and includes all equipment and accessories related to the container. "Bulk milk
				  tanker" does not include a container that is used by a milk producer solely to
				  transport that producer's own milk to that milk producer's bulk tank or to a
				  licensed dairy plant operated by that milk producer.
(5) "Bulk milk weigher and sampler" means any
				  person who collects official milk samples and may transport raw milk from a
				  farm, or raw milk or fluid milk products to or from a dairy plant, receiving
				  station or transfer station, and is licensed under s.
				  ATCP
				  82.04.
(6)
				  "Bulk tank" means a permanent or semi-permanent tank, container, or silo used
				  to receive, cool, or store bulk quantities of milk on a dairy farm. "Bulk tank"
				  does not include milk cans.
(7)
				  "Bulk tank unit" or "BTU" means at least one dairy farm that is rated as a
				  single entity and given a single sanitation compliance and enforcement rating
				  by the division.
(8) "Bulk
				  transport container" means a vehicle or container into which milk directly
				  flows during milking and that a milk producer uses to ship the milk from a
				  dairy farm to a dairy plant.
(9)
				  "C-I-P" means clean-in-place, which is the process by which equipment is
				  cleaned and sanitized without being disassembled and by the mechanical
				  circulation of cleaning and sanitizing solutions onto interior milk and dairy
				  product contact surfaces.
(10)
				  "Composite sample" means a sample of milk that is collected from 2 or more milk
				  shipments from the same milk producer and that is compiled and preserved
				  according to s.
				  ATCP
				  65.78(4).
(11) "Cowyard" means an enclosed or
				  unenclosed area, approximately adjacent to a milking barn or parlor, in which
				  milking animals congregate. "Cowyard" includes milking animal walkways, feeding
				  areas, watering areas, washing areas, and housing areas located outside but
				  adjacent to a milking barn or parlor.
(12) "Dairy farm" means a dairy farm, as
				  defined in s.
				  97.22(1)
				  (a), Stats., operated by a milk producer and
				  includes a milkhouse.
(13) "Dairy
				  plant" means any of the following:
(a) A
				  place where a dairy product is manufactured or processed for sale or
				  distribution as human food.
(b) A
				  receiving station.
(c) A transfer
				  station.
(d) For the purposes of
				  assigning milk producer license application responsibilities, a milk
				  contractor, or any business under par. (a) or (b) of this section, that submits
				  a milk producer license application on behalf of a milk producer and thereby
				  certifies that the milk producer's dairy farm and milking operations comply
				  with applicable requirements under this chapter.