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and sampler or milk tank truck driver to transport bulk shipments | | of milk from a milk plant, receiving station or transfer station to | | another milk plant, receiving station or transfer station. |
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| | | 13.__Milk transportation company.__"Milk transportation | | company" means a company responsible for a milk transport tank. |
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| | | 14.__Not pasteurized.__"Not pasteurized" means any milk or | | milk product that has not been subjected to the temperature and | | time requirements of pasteurization using equipment designed for | | pasteurization or has not been aseptically processed and | | packaged. |
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| | | 15.__Pasteurization or pasteurized.__"Pasteurization" or | | "pasteurized" or a similar term means the process of heating | | every particle of milk or milk product in properly designed and | | operated equipment to the temperature specified and for the time | | period specified in any rule adopted pursuant to section 2910 or | | any pasteurization process that has been recognized by the United | | States Food and Drug Administration to be equally effective and | | that is approved by the commissioner. |
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| | | 16.__Person.__"Person" means any individual, plant operator, | | partnership, corporation, company, firm, trustee, association or | | institution. |
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| | | 17.__Receiving station.__"Receiving station" means any place, | | premise or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, | | handled, stored or cooled and prepared for further transporting. |
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| | | 18.__Transfer station.__"Transfer station" means any place, | | premises or establishment where milk or milk products are | | transferred directly from one milk transport tank to another. |
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| | | Sec. A-2. 7 MRSA §2901, as amended by PL 1999, c. 481, §1, is | | repealed. |
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| | | Sec. A-3. 7 MRSA §2901-A, as amended by PL 1999, c. 362, §7, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | §2901-A. Standards and labeling |
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| | | Notwithstanding any other requirements of this chapter, milk | | and milk products, defined in accordance with standards then in | | effect that have been adopted by the United States Government and | | labeled in conformity with labeling requirements then in effect | | that have been adopted by the United States Government, are | | considered to conform with the definitions and labeling | | requirements set forth in this chapter; except that containers of | | milk and cream packaged in Maine must also bear the name and |
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