New York Agriculture & Markets Law Article 4 - Dairy Products.

• 46 - Declaration of Policy.
  It is hereby declared that the dairy industry is a paramount industry of the state and the production, processing, packaging, distribution and sale of milk...
• 46-a - Regulations.
  The commissioner shall, after public hearing, promulgate definitions and standards for milk and milk products, and for products other than milk and milk products, which...
• 47 - Care and Feed of Cows, and Care and Keeping of Milk.
  No person shall keep cows, for the production of milk for market or for sale or exchange, or for manufacturing the milk or cream from...
• 47-a - Regulating the Handling and Sale of Products Made From Recovered Milk Fat and Solids.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, it shall not be unlawful to recover milk fat and other milk solids (a) from mixtures of milk...
• 48 - Receptacles to Be Cleansed Before Returning; Receptacles May Be Seized; Evidence; Violation.
  Whenever any can or receptacle is used for transporting or conveying milk, cream or curd to market for the purpose of selling or furnishing the...
• 49 - Insanitary Cans and Receptacles Condemned.
  All cans, or receptacles used in the sale of milk, cream or curd for consumption, or in transporting or shipping the same to market or...
• 50-e - Legislative Finding and Declaration of Policy.
  It is hereby declared that cream, half and half, milk and mixtures of milk and cream have long been accepted by the consuming public; recognized...
• 50-f - Definitions and Standards of Identity.
  As used in this section the terms "melloream" or "a vegetable oil blend" mean any substance, mixture or compound regardless of the name by which...
• 50-g - Licenses to Manufacturers of Melloream.
  1. No person shall engage in the manufacture or production of melloream in the state of New York or for sale or distribution in the...
• 50-h - Entry, Inspection and Investigation.
  Any person designated for the purpose shall have access to and may enter at all reasonable hours all places where melloream is being manufactured, packaged...
• 50-i - Labeling of Melloream and Vegetable Oil Blends.
  Whenever the brand name of melloream or a vegetable oil blend, as defined in section fifty-f, appears on the container so conspicuously as to be...
• 50-j - Serving Melloream, Vegetable Oil Blends and Cream in Restaurants and Other Public Eating Places.
  Whenever melloream, a vegetable oil blend, cream, half and half, milk or a mixture of milk and cream is served in a restaurant, hotel, boarding...
• 50-k - Rules and Regulations.
  The commissioner shall from time to time, after inquiry and public hearing, promulgate and adopt rules and regulations to supplement and give full effect to...
• 51 - Milk Inspection.
  The commissioner or his agent, in inspecting milk for the purpose of analysis to determine the percentage of fat or other milk solids, shall take...
• 52 - Presumptions in Regard to Cream and Skim Milk.
  When cream is separated or skimmed from milk at any station or establishment where milk is received from producers for the purpose of selling the...
• 54 - Regulations in Regard to Manufactories, Plants or Places Where Milk or Cream is Brought or Received.
  No person shall sell, supply or bring to any butter or cheese factory or to any plant or place which manufactures a food product from...
• 55 - Skimmed Milk, Whey, Buttermilk or Milk Container or Plant Equipment Rinsings to Be Heated Before Being Used for Feeding.
  Any person operating any butter factory, cheese factory or other milk plant, before delivering to any person any skimmed milk, whey, buttermilk or milk container...
• 56 - Determination of the Content of Milk And/or Cream Where Purchase or Settlement Therefor is Made on the Basis of Such Content.
  1. The commissioner shall, after public hearing, prescribe, by rules and regulations, the methods, equipment, and procedures, including the calibration and use of electronic equipment,...
• 56-a - Taking of Composite Sample; Record of Tests.
  Corporations, associations or persons buying milk and/or cream from producers of milk and/or cream to be paid for on the basis of the percentage of...
• 56-b - Determination of Bacteria in Milk And/or Cream Where Purchase or Settlement is Made Therefor on the Basis of Bacterial Count.
  In milk-receiving or manufacturing plants and other places using methods approved by the commissioner for determining the bacterial count in milk and/or cream, where the...
• 57 - Licensing of Persons in Charge of Milk-Gathering Stations, Manufactories or Plants; Licensing of Persons Sampling Milk And/or Cream And/or Determining
  weight or volume of milk and/or cream; and of persons making milk component tests. 1. No person shall take charge, either as superintendent, manager or...
• 57-a - Licensing of Persons Making Bacterial Counts of Milk And/or Cream or Making Tests of Milk And/or Cream to Detect Certain Abnormalities.
  No person shall test milk and/or cream in order to determine the bacterial or leucocyte count or make other tests to determine the presence or...
• 59 - Powers of the Department Concerning Oleomargarine.
  The department through the commissioner shall have power and it shall be its duty to: 1. Investigate, inspect and supervise the sale and exposure for...
• 61 - Manufacture, Sale, and Use of Oleomargarine.
  1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, copartnership, association,...
• 62 - Coloring Matter, Dairy Terms, Size of Package, Labeling, False Advertising.
  No person, manufacturing with intent to sell, any substance or article to be used as a substitute for cheese and which is not made exclusively...
• 63 - Labeling of Imitation Cheese; Imitation Cheese Food and Products Containing Imitation Cheese.
  1. Whenever the brand name or product designation of imitation cheese or imitation cheese food appears on a package, the brand name or product designation,...
• 67 - Manufacturers Identification Markings and Grade Brands for Cheese.
  1. Every manufacturer of cheddar type cheese made in New York state shall put a stencil, brand, stamp or label upon such cheese indicating the...
• 67-b - Pasteurization of Cheese.
  No person manufacturing cheese or cheese curd or handling cheese or cheese curd as a wholesaler, assembler or broker in the state of New York...
• 68 - Use of False Brand Prohibited.
  No person shall offer, sell or expose for sale, in any package, butter or cheese which is falsely branded or labeled.
• 69 - County Trade Marks.
  At a regular or special meeting of a county dairymen's association in any county of the state there may be adopted a county trade mark,...
• 70 - Branded Cans, Jars, Bottles, Cases, Boxes or Barrels Not to Be Sold, Remarked or Used Without Consent of Owner.
  No person shall hereafter without the consent of the owner use, sell, dispose of, buy or traffic in any milk can, jar or bottle, or...
• 71 - Registration of Mark; Defacing Mark; Seizure.
  Any person owning milk cans, jars, bottles, bottle cases or carton cases upon which he has placed or desires to place any designating mark may...

Last modified: February 3, 2019