Every Babcock or other centrifugal machine, or cream test or butterfat test scale, used in the Commonwealth by any inspector of milk or cream or by any person in any milk inspection laboratory for determining the composition of milk or cream for purposes of inspection, or by any person in any milk depot, ice cream factory, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, condensed milk factory, laboratory, or other place for determining the composition or value of milk or cream as a basis for payment in buying or selling, shall be subject to inspection at least once in each year by the Commissioner. The Commissioner may condemn any Babcock or other centrifugal scale that is, in his opinion, not giving accurate results. No Babcock or other centrifugal machine or scale that has been condemned by the Commissioner shall be used in the Commonwealth by any person for determining the composition or value of milk or cream, unless the machine or scale has been changed and approved by the Commissioner.
Code 1950, § 3-402; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-532; 2008, c. 860.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 3.2 - Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food
Chapter 52 - Milk, Milk Products, and Dairies
§ 3.2-5200. Duty of Commissioner to foster dairy industry
§ 3.2-5202. Sale of products not subject to local supervision
§ 3.2-5203. Importing of products
§ 3.2-5204. Warning and punishment of persons using or furnishing impure milk
§ 3.2-5207. Powers and duties of Commissioner; obstruction unlawful
§ 3.2-5208. Powers and duties of State Health Commissioner; obstruction unlawful
§ 3.2-5211. Excessive drug residue; penalty
§ 3.2-5212. Authority of Board to establish standards, adopt regulations
§ 3.2-5213. Commissioner to enforce article; right of entry
§ 3.2-5215. Detention of adulterated, misbranded products
§ 3.2-5216. Condemnation of adulterated, misbranded products
§ 3.2-5220. Inspection of centrifugal machines and scales; condemnation
§ 3.2-5222. To whom certificates issued
§ 3.2-5224. Regulations governing equipment, standards and procedures
§ 3.2-5225. Capacity of standard measurers
§ 3.2-5226. Units for testing cream
§ 3.2-5227. Sampling to determine butterfat by composite tests
§ 3.2-5228. Test of measurers; inspection of machines and scales; right of entry
§ 3.2-5229. False manipulation and reading of tests
§ 3.2-5230. Tender of payment as evidence of test
§ 3.2-5231. Commissioner to enforce article; persons exempt