7 CFR §58.159
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- (a)Fresh and sweet. Free from “old milk” flavor of developed acidity or other off-flavors.
- (b)Normal feed. Regional feed flavors, such as alfalfa, clover, silage, or similar feeds or grasses (weed flavors, such as peppergrass, French weed, onion, garlic, or other obnoxious weeds, excluded).
- (c)Off-flavors. Tastes or odors, such as utensil, bitter, barny, or other associated defects when present to a degree readily detectable.
- (d)Developed acidity. An apparent increase from the normal acidity of the milk to a degree of taste and odor which is detectable.
- (e)Extraneous matter. Foreign substances, such as filth, hair, insects and fragments thereof, and rodents, and materials, such as metal, fiber, wood and glass.
- (f)Sediment. Fine particles of material other than the foreign substances and materials defined in paragraph (e) of this section.
- (g)C.I.P. The abbreviation of an approved system of cleaning pipelines called “Cleaned-in-Place.”
- (h)Mechanical cleaning. Denotes cleaning solely by circulation and/or flowing chemical detergent solution and water rinses onto and over the surfaces to be cleaned, by mechanical means.