It shall be unlawful to purchase or receive cream for buttermaking purposes except on the basis of the following grades: Sweet cream, first grade and second grade. Every person shall buy or receive cream on a grade basis, and each grade shall be kept and shipped so as to arrive within forty-eight (48) hours after the date of purchase at a dairy products manufacturing plant. The cream shall be shipped in a separate can plainly marked to indicate the grade therein and the date graded, and the person buying or receiving the cream shall maintain a price differential between grades on a recognized established differential. This differential shall be a minimum of two cents (2¢) per pound of butterfat between first grade cream and second grade cream.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Subtitle 4 - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics
Chapter 59 - Milk and Dairy Products
Subchapter 2 - Regulation of Manufacture and Sale Generally
§ 20-59-204. State Board of Health — Appointment of deputies — Rules and standards
§ 20-59-205. Right of review — Definition
§ 20-59-206. Dairy plant license
§ 20-59-207. Frozen dessert manufacturer's license
§ 20-59-208. Receiving or transfer plant license
§ 20-59-209. Mellorine manufacturer's license
§ 20-59-210. Sampler and grader license
§ 20-59-211. Milk tester license and fee
§ 20-59-212. Plant permits — Cancellation, withdrawal, and suspension
§ 20-59-213. Dairy products from another state
§ 20-59-214. Unlawful acts — Insanitary plants
§ 20-59-215. Unlawful acts — False tests
§ 20-59-216. Unlawful acts — Improper method of testing
§ 20-59-217. Unlawful acts — Improper scales
§ 20-59-218. Unlawful acts — Improper centrifuges
§ 20-59-219. Unlawful acts — Improper testing apparatus
§ 20-59-220. Unlawful acts — Unclean instruments
§ 20-59-221. Unlawful acts — Improper temperature for tests
§ 20-59-222. Unlawful acts — Improper reading of butterfat control
§ 20-59-223. Unlawful acts — Handling in insanitary places
§ 20-59-224. Unlawful acts — Products of diseased animals — Contaminated products
§ 20-59-225. Unlawful acts — Preservatives
§ 20-59-226. Unlawful acts — Removing label of health officer
§ 20-59-227. Unlawful acts — Unpasteurized products
§ 20-59-228. Unlawful acts — Products below standard
§ 20-59-229. Unlawful acts — Cream graded for buttermaking — Price differential
§ 20-59-230. Unlawful acts — Mold or sediment test
§ 20-59-231. Unlawful acts — Empty cans inverted
§ 20-59-232. Unlawful acts — Records of cream buyers — Monthly reports
§ 20-59-234. Unlawful acts — Operation without permit
§ 20-59-235. Unlawful acts — Labeling of cheese
§ 20-59-236. Unlawful acts — Removal of label
§ 20-59-237. Unlawful acts — Renovation of butter or cheese
§ 20-59-238. Unlawful acts — Labeling of renovated butter
§ 20-59-239. Unlawful acts — Labeling ice cream
§ 20-59-240. Unlawful acts — Labeling ice milk
§ 20-59-241. Unlawful acts — Labeling ice cream mix
§ 20-59-242. Unlawful acts — Bacteria count of frozen dessert
§ 20-59-243. Unlawful acts — Graded milk
§ 20-59-244. Unlawful acts — Pasteurized milk — Permit
§ 20-59-245. Unlawful acts — Name of distributor on container — Sale of misprint bottle caps
§ 20-59-246. Manufacturing milk permit