Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 40 > Authentication and Identification

• Container: means milk and cream cans, farm milk tanks, milk tank trucks, milk storage tanks, pasteurizing vats, cheese vats, butter churns, butter tubs, cheese hoops and any other receptacle designed for use or used to hold fluid milk, milk or dairy products. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Cream: means that portion of milk consisting of milk fat. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Department: means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. See Oregon Statutes 276.001
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• 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
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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
• Frozen dessert: means a food product that is defined and standardized by rule under ORS § 621. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion of cows, sheep and goats. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Nonprocessing distributor: means a person who sells fluid milk in consumer-sized units under the person's own brand or trade name after the milk has been processed and packaged by a distributor or producer-distributor. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Producer: means a person who engages in the production of unpasteurized milk on a dairy farm and does not bottle the milk on the premises where production occurs, in pasteurized or unpasteurized form and for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100