§ 25-5.5-104 — Unsanitary dairy products

Colorado § 25-5.5-104

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 25: Public
• Art.: Dairy Products, Imitation Dairy Products,

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(1) The following types of dairy
products are declared to be unsanitary: Milk drawn within eight days before or four
days after calving; milk drawn from cows that are kept in barns or stables which are
not reasonably well-lighted and well-ventilated or that are kept in barns or stables
that are filthy from an accumulation of animal feces and excreta or from any other
cause; milk which is drawn from cows which are themselves filthy or in an unhealthy
condition; milk kept or transported in dirty, rusty, or open seamed cans, tanks, or
other containers; cream produced from any such milk, or milk, cream, butter, or any
other dairy product that is stale or putrid, or milk, cream, butter, or any other dairy
product which has been exposed to foul or noxious air or gases in barns occupied
by animals or drawn or kept exposed in dirty, foul, or unclean places or under
unclean conditions or where transmissible human disease exists; cream containing
less than sixteen percent butterfat; cream produced by the use of a cream
separator, which separator has not been thoroughly washed, cleansed, and
sanitized after previous use in the separation of cream from milk; cream produced
by the use of a separator placed or stationed in any unclean or filthy room or place
or in any building containing a stable wherein cattle or other animals are kept,
unless said cream separator is so separated and shielded by partition from the
stable portion of such building as to be free from all foul or noxious air or gases
which issue or may issue from such place or stable; cream which when delivered at
the point of shipment is more than three days old during the months of May to
October inclusive or more than four days old during the months of November to
April inclusive; milk or cream to which has been added, in any quantity, any foreign
substance or coloring matter, chemical or preservative, or butter or butterfat,
whether for the purpose of increasing the quantity of milk or for preserving the
condition of sweetness thereof or for any purpose whatever.

(2) Nothing in this part 1 shall be construed to prohibit the sale of
homogenized cream made from butter and milk, if such product is labeled or
stamped as imitation cream according to the requirements of the department, or
the sale of standardized milk which otherwise meets with the requirements of this
part 1.

(3) No person shall sell or offer for sale, or furnish or deliver or have in his
possession or under his control with intent to sell or offer for sale, or furnish or
deliver to any other person as food for man or to any creamery, cheese factory,
milk-condensing factory, or milk or cream dealer any unsanitary milk, cream, or
butter or any adulterated dairy product.

(4) No person shall manufacture for sale any article of food for man from any
unsanitary milk or from any unsanitary cream.

Legislative History

Source: L. 85: Entire article added, p. 890, � 1, effective April 5.