Oregon Statutes 621.117 – Distributor or producer-distributor may sell only milk that is pasteurized or from disease-free goats or sheep
A distributor, producer-distributor or dairy products plant licensee shall not sell or offer or expose for sale any dairy product or fluid milk for human consumption unless the milk used in the dairy product or fluid milk has been pasteurized or is goat or sheep’s milk that was produced by a disease-free herd, except that if not more than one reactor animal appears when the goat or sheep herd is tested for brucellosis, the milk, dairy products or fluid milk may still be sold if the animal is slaughtered and no additional reactor animals appear when the herd is retested, as provided in ORS Chapter 596 and regulations promulgated thereunder. If one or more reactor animals appear when the herd is retested, no milk, dairy products or fluid milk from the herd may be sold until the herd regains a brucellosis-free status. [1955 c.714 § 9(3); 1957 c.346 § 3; 1969 c.152 § 5; 1975 c.299 § 1; 1999 c.197 § 20; 1999 c.937 § 4]
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 621.117
- Disease-free herd: means a herd of cows, sheep or goats that is not an infected herd. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Distributor: means a person who purchases only unpasteurized milk and pasteurizes or otherwise processes that milk, then bottles and distributes the milk for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Fluid milk: means milk and any other product made by the addition of a substance to milk or to a liquid form of milk product if the milk or other product is produced, processed, distributed, sold or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
- Milk: means the lacteal secretion of cows, sheep and goats. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
[1955 c.714 § 9(1),(2); 1999 c.197 § 21; renumbered 621.259 in 1999]
[1955 c.714 § 9(4); repealed by 1999 c.197 § 61]
[Amended by 1961 c.425 § 14; 1979 c.320 § 4; 1999 c.197 § 22; renumbered 621.073 in 1999]