Every person engaged in the business of producing, handling, transporting, processing, packaging, selling, or distributing milk in Rhode Island shall upon request furnish the director, whenever requested by the director, the following information: (1) full name and place of business; (2) number of quarts of milk handled weekly by him or her or it; and (3) the names and addresses of all producers, milk haulers or milk plants supplying milk to him or her. Every milk plant holding a Rhode Island milk plant permit shall report coincidentally with and by means of a copy of any report which he or she makes, or is required to make, to the federal milk marketing administrator whenever he or she shall have added or dropped a milk producer.