COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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§ 1445. DAIRY PRODUCTS. Tit. VII, Ch. 2.
13 plainly printed with the words "Skimmed Milk" in letters not smaller
14 than twelve point gothic caps.
15 For the purpose of this chapter, milk is the fresh, clean, lacteal
16 secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy
17 cows, properly fed and kept. For the purpose of this chapter, cream
18 is the portion of milk, rich in milk fat, which rises to the surface of
19 milk on standing, or is separated from it by centrifugal force, is fresh
20 and clean.
21 For the purpose of this chapter, skimmed milk is the portion of
22 milk, poor in fat, from which the cream has been removed. The term
23 "skimmed milk" shall also include the fresh, clean, lacteal secretion
24 of one or more healthy cows and containing less than three per cent
25 of milk fat or less than eleven and one-half per cent of milk solids.
26 For the purpose of this chapter, milk, cream and skimmed milk
27 shall be deemed to be adulterated :
28 In case of milk, cream and skimmed milk :
29 1. If water or any other substance has been added.
30 2. If it contains any visible dirt or be contained in any container
31 which is not clean.
32 3. If it be obtained from any animal having disease, sickness,
33 ulcer, abscess or running sore or which has been obtained from a cow
34 within fifteen days before or five days after calving.
35 4. If it be obtained from a cow stabled in an unhealthful place or
36 fed upon any substance in a state of putrification or of an unhealthful
37 nature.
38 In case of milk: If it contains less than three per cent of milk
39 fat or less than eleven and one-half per cent of milk solids.
40 In- case of cream : If it contains less than sixteen per cent of
41 milk fat.
42 For the purpose of this chapter, milk, cream and skimmed milk
43 shall be deemed to be misbranded :
44 If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the pur-
45 chaser, or if the package bears any statement, design or device which
46 is false or misleading in any particular.
47 For the purpose of this chapter, cheese is the sound, ripened
48 product made from milk or cream by coagulating the casein with
49 rennet or lactic acid with or without the addition of ripening ferments,
50 seasonings and color, and contains not less than thirty per cent of
51 milk fat. For the purpose of this chapter, skimmed milk cheese is the
52 sound and ripened product made from skimmed milk as defined in this
53 section, by coagulating the casein thereof with rennet or lactic acid,
54 with or without the addition of ripening ferments, seasoning, and color
55 and containing less than thirty per cent of milk fat.
56 No person shall offer or expose for sale any skimmed milk cheese
57 without the same being plainly and durably branded or marked on
58 the side or top of both cheese and package in the English language
59 with the words "Skimmed Milk Cheese" in letters to be not less than
60 one inch in height and one-half inch in width.
61 Every article, substitute or compound, save that produced from
62 pure milk of cows and containing no added substance, made in the
63 semblance of or designed to be used for or in the place of evaporated
64 milk, is hereby declared "Imitation Evaporated Milk", and every arti-
65 cle, substitute or compound, containing any fat other than the milk fat
66 of milk cows, made in the semblance of or designed to be used for or