Effective - 28 Aug 1981
196.525. Definitions. — Definitions, terminology, and standards of identity provided in Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, Agriculture, Part 2858, subpart A-V and Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Food and Drugs, Parts 131 and 133, shall have precedence unless further defined herein. Additions and exceptions to the definitions contained therein shall include:
(1) "Agent" means any duly authorized representative of the Missouri department of agriculture under the authority of the director;
(2) "Bulk milk truck operator" means any qualified individual who, as operator of a bulk milk transportation vehicle, is licensed by the department to make organoleptic inspection, and to sample and test milk as it is collected from dairy farm bulk milk cooling tanks;
(3) "Dairy farm" means any place or premises where one or more cows or goats are kept, and from which a part or all of the milk or milk products are provided, sold or offered for sale to a milk plant, transfer station or receiving station for manufacturing purposes;
(4) "Dairy manufacturing plant" means any processing or manufacturing plant utilizing milk, or a major ingredient thereof, in the production of products for human consumption. The items pertaining to ice cream and frozen dessert products manufacturing plants regulated by the department of health and senior services contained in sections 196.851 to 196.918, and pertaining to grade "A" fluid milk plants regulated by the state milk board contained in sections 196.931 to 196.959 are exempt from this definition;
(5) "Dairy product" means any product or by-product which has as its precursor milk or an ingredient exclusive to milk, with the exception of products or by-products which are subject to the provisions of sections 196.851 to 196.918, relating to ice cream and frozen food products, and sections 196.931 to 196.959, as regulated by the state milk board;
(6) "Department" or "department of agriculture" means the department of agriculture of the state of Missouri;
(7) "Director" means the ranking authority or administrator of the department of agriculture, or the representative or agent of the director;
(8) "Department of health and senior services" means the department of health and senior services of the state of Missouri;
(9) "Fieldman" means any qualified person who is duly authorized as a field representative of a processing or manufacturing plant or producer cooperative, whose responsibilities include procurement and quality control, and who is duly licensed by the department;
(10) "Grader" means any qualified individual licensed by the department to sample, test and grade milk or cream;
(11) "Manufacturing milk" is all milk and cream produced and made available for market that is not under the inspection supervision of the Missouri state milk board as it administers sections 196.931 to 196.959;
(12) "Person" shall mean any individual, plant operator, partnership, corporation, company, firm, trustee, association or institution;
(13) "Producer" means one who milks or supervises the milking of one or more cows or goats, and is legally entitled to market the production therefrom;
(14) "Receiving plant or station" means the delivery point for milk and cream collected from, or delivered by, one or more producers;
(15) "Regulations" means the rules and official orders authorized and promulgated by the director of agriculture according to the provisions of chapter 536 in accordance with the provisions of sections 196.520 to 196.610, along with other regulations of state and federal agencies;
(16) "State milk board" means the board created by section 196.941, and authorized to administer the provisions of sections 196.931 to 196.959;
(17) "Test or analysis" means the inclusion of prescribed sampling, sample preservation and preparation with appropriate analytical procedure to reach the desired objective; such procedures shall be used as are set forth in the latest editions of the "Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists" and the "Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products".
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(RSMo 1939 § 14098, A.L. 1945 p. 83, A.L. 1959 H.B. 126, A.L. 1967 p. 287, A.L. 1981 H.B. 52)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco
Section 196.010 - Definitions.
Section 196.015 - Certain acts prohibited.
Section 196.020 - Injunction will lie to restrain violations of section 196.015.
Section 196.025 - Punishment for violations, exceptions.
Section 196.035 - Duty of prosecuting attorney.
Section 196.050 - Not to prescribe more stringent regulations than prescribed by federal act.
Section 196.055 - Access to places in which food, drugs, devices or cosmetics are manufactured.
Section 196.060 - Carriers in interstate commerce shall permit access to records of shipments.
Section 196.065 - Publication of reports of judgments, decrees and court orders.
Section 196.070 - Food, when deemed adulterated — industrial hemp content, effect of.
Section 196.075 - Food, when deemed misbranded.
Section 196.085 - Use of poisonous or deleterious substances.
Section 196.090 - Sections 196.010 to 196.120 not applicable to animal food or garbage.
Section 196.095 - When drug or device adulterated.
Section 196.100 - When drug or device misbranded.
Section 196.105 - Provisions governing selling or delivering new drug.
Section 196.110 - When a cosmetic deemed adulterated.
Section 196.115 - When a cosmetic deemed misbranded.
Section 196.120 - Advertisement, when deemed false.
Section 196.150 - Sale of horse and mule meat prohibited except when labeled as such meat.
Section 196.160 - Lawful to sell goat meat, when.
Section 196.165 - Falsely representing food to be kosher prohibited, penalty — kosher defined.
Section 196.170 - Mixed flour to be branded.
Section 196.190 - To what places law applies.
Section 196.195 - Contents of places and utensils used must be protected.
Section 196.210 - Toilet rooms provided.
Section 196.220 - Not used for sleeping purposes.
Section 196.225 - Employees with communicable disease prohibited, where.
Section 196.230 - Abatement of violations by director.
Section 196.240 - Authorization by director to close health menace.
Section 196.245 - Order to specify what — revocation — reopening.
Section 196.250 - Construction of the word close.
Section 196.265 - Penalty for violation.
Section 196.271 - Food manufacturers or distributors may register.
Section 196.311 - Definitions.
Section 196.313 - License to sell eggs required — exceptions.
Section 196.316 - License requirements — applications — kinds of licenses — fees — posting.
Section 196.318 - Licensees to keep records.
Section 196.321 - Standards and grades to be fixed.
Section 196.323 - Kinds of eggs which may be sold.
Section 196.326 - Egg containers to be marked or labeled.
Section 196.328 - Containers not required to be marked, when.
Section 196.331 - Sign required on sale from bulk lots.
Section 196.333 - Markings in case of eggs from different species of fowl.
Section 196.336 - Advertisements of price to give size and quality.
Section 196.338 - Dealer to furnish retailer with invoice showing size and quality.
Section 196.341 - Processing plants kept clean — standards — inspection — rulemaking, procedure.
Section 196.343 - Inspection of business premises and records.
Section 196.346 - Stop-sale orders, effect — appeals.
Section 196.348 - Court may order seizure of eggs, when — condemnation.
Section 196.351 - License suspended or revoked, when, procedure — appeal.
Section 196.352 - Civil penalty authorized, when.
Section 196.354 - Duties of director of agriculture — rules and regulations.
Section 196.357 - Violations may be enjoined.
Section 196.361 - Violation a misdemeanor.
Section 196.450 - Definitions.
Section 196.455 - Annual license required.
Section 196.465 - Semiannual inspection of plants.
Section 196.470 - Form and expiration of license.
Section 196.475 - Gas masks, alarm bell, and illumination required.
Section 196.480 - Requirements before issuance of license.
Section 196.485 - Temperature requirements and record.
Section 196.490 - Food to be quick frozen before placed in locker.
Section 196.495 - Record of name and address of user.
Section 196.500 - Accurate and complete report of weight of food.
Section 196.505 - Designation of food not for human consumption.
Section 196.510 - Operator to have lien on property for rentals — furnish content insurance.
Section 196.515 - Revocation of license — enforcement.
Section 196.520 - Short title.
Section 196.525 - Definitions.
Section 196.530 - Standards to be maintained.
Section 196.540 - Administration by state milk board — rules, promulgation — exempt products.
Section 196.542 - Fees for licenses.
Section 196.545 - Unlawful sale of dairy products.
Section 196.550 - Grading of products — right to protest accuracy, procedure.
Section 196.555 - The state milk board's right of access.
Section 196.560 - Records of purchases and sales.
Section 196.565 - The state milk board may take samples.
Section 196.570 - Condemnation of illegal dairy products.
Section 196.575 - Unidentified products subject to seizure.
Section 196.580 - Confiscated products released to owner, when.
Section 196.585 - Inspection, interference prohibited.
Section 196.590 - Suspension or revocation of licenses.
Section 196.595 - Substandard products, sale or production prohibited.
Section 196.610 - Penalty for violation.
Section 196.695 - Filled milk defined.
Section 196.700 - Emulsified cream defined.
Section 196.705 - Fat or oil other than milk fat prohibited.
Section 196.710 - Emulsified cream and filled milk prohibited.
Section 196.715 - Penalty for violation.
Section 196.735 - Labeling of cheese.
Section 196.740 - Labeling for shipments of skimmed milk.
Section 196.815 - Receptacles defined.
Section 196.820 - Receptacles kept clean.
Section 196.825 - Return of shipping containers.
Section 196.830 - Receptacle cleaned and returned to distributor.
Section 196.840 - Examination and tuberculin test of cattle, when.
Section 196.845 - Violation a misdemeanor.
Section 196.851 - Applicability — purpose of law.
Section 196.856 - Definitions of products subject to law.
Section 196.872 - Rules and regulations for minimum sanitation to be established, procedure.
Section 196.886 - Sale regulations — labeling.
Section 196.895 - Violation of law a misdemeanor.
Section 196.931 - Definitions.
Section 196.933 - Certain products exempted.
Section 196.937 - Penalty — violation by employee is violation by employer.
Section 196.941 - State milk board, membership, qualifications, appointment.
Section 196.945 - Inspection fee, payable when — hearing and notice before fee established.
Section 196.949 - State inspection of milk or milk products not required, when.
Section 196.951 - State milk board official rating agency — survey made, when, how.
Section 196.953 - Injunctive relief authorized.
Section 196.955 - Valid grade A milk permit holder may continue to sell grade A milk.
Section 196.957 - Only one inspection required.
Section 196.959 - Appeal from order or regulation of board, how taken.
Section 196.970 - Citation of law.
Section 196.973 - Definitions.
Section 196.976 - Prescription drug repository program established, criteria.
Section 196.981 - Immunity from civil or criminal liability, when.
Section 196.984 - Administrative rules, authority to promulgate.
Section 196.1000 - Definitions.
Section 196.1003 - Requirements.
Section 196.1020 - Definitions.
Section 196.1026 - Nonresident or foreign nonparticipating manufacturers, requirements.
Section 196.1100 - Trust fund established, purpose — reversion to general revenue prohibited.
Section 196.1109 - Moneys appropriated from trust fund, purposes.
Section 196.1109 - Moneys appropriated from trust fund, purposes.
Section 196.1115 - Board's powers, duties and limitation on expenditures.
Section 196.1115 - Board's powers, duties and limitation on expenditures.
Section 196.1127 - Appropriation to board subject to certain requirements.