Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 430 - Milk and Milk Products

• Adulterated: means any milk, milk product, retail raw milk or cheese: (A) Which bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health, provided if the substance is not an added substance, such milk, milk product, retail raw milk or cheese shall not be considered adulterated if the quantity of such substance in such milk, milk product, retail raw milk or cheese would not ordinarily render it injurious to health, (B) which bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe, (C) which consists in whole or in part of any diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid or decomposed substance or is otherwise unfit for food, (D) which has been produced, prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth or may have been rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health, or (E) whose packaging or container is composed in whole or in part of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Cheese manufacturer: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the production, receiving or handling of milk or milk products, which milk products, in whole or in part, are intended to be manufactured into cheese for distribution or sale in or outside this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the receiving, handling, purchasing, distribution or sale of fluid milk or milk products, which fluid milk or milk products, in whole or in part, are intended for bottling, manufacturing, processing, distribution or sale in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Handler: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the receiving, handling, distribution or sale of fluid milk or milk products, which fluid milk or milk products, in whole or in part, are intended for bottling, manufacturing, processing, distribution or sale in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• milk for pasteurization: means normal lacteal secretion that is practically free of colostrum and that is obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy hooved mammals. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• milk or milk products: means products for which a standard of identity has been established pursuant to 21 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Misbranded: means the use of any label, written or printed advertising or graphic upon or accompanying a product or container of milk, milk products or cheese, including, but not limited to, signs, electronic displays, electronic communication, placards or other means of communication intended to provide information to consumers, which is false or misleading or which violates any applicable municipal, state or federal labeling requirement. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Nonstandardized milk products: means milk-based products modified so they do not meet the definition of optional ingredients established in 21 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of section 7-157. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Producer: means any person, firm or corporation that operates a dairy farm that provides, sells or offers milk to any dealer, person, handler, company or cooperative for sale. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Raw milk cheese: means aged hard cheese that meets the sanitary provisions of this chapter and that is produced from retail raw milk. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Retail raw milk: means normal lacteal secretion that is practically free of colostrum, that is obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy goats, sheep or cows, that is intended for human consumption in the unpasteurized state and that meets the sanitary standards of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Retail raw milk producer: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the production, handling, distribution or sale of retail raw milk. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127