CHAPTER 97
FOOD REGULATION
97.01   Definitions.
97.02   Standards; adulterated food.
97.03   Standards; misbranding.
97.07   Interpretation.
97.09   Rules.
97.10   Prohibited acts.
97.12   Enforcement.
97.13   Sale of fish flour regulated.
97.17   Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.
97.175   Butter and cheese grader license requirements.
97.176   Butter; grading; label.
97.177   Cheese; grading; labeling.
97.18   Oleomargarine regulations.
97.20   Dairy plants.
97.21   Milk haulers and milk distributors.
97.22   Milk producers.
97.23   Drug residues in milk.
97.24   Milk and milk products.
97.25   Use of synthetic bovine growth hormone; labeling of dairy products.
97.27   Food warehouses.
97.28   Direct sale of eggs.
97.29   Food processing plants.
97.30   Retail food establishments.
97.32   Special dairy and food inspectors.
97.34   Bottled drinking water and soda water beverage; standards; sampling and analysis.
97.41   Retail food: agent status for local health departments.
97.42   Compulsory inspection of animals, poultry and carcasses.
97.43   Meat from dead or diseased animals.
97.44   Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers.
97.45   Labeling of horsemeat.
97.56   Kosher meat.
97.57   Planted or cultivated rice.
97.72   Penalties.
97.73   Injunction.
Ch. 97 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See definitions in s. 93.01.
97.01 97.01 Definitions. In this chapter, unless inconsistent with context:
97.01(1) (1) "Butter" means the clean, nonrancid product made by gathering in any manner the fat of fresh or ripened milk or cream into a mass, which also contains a small portion of the other milk constituents, with or without salt or added coloring matter, and contains not less than 80% of milk fat. Renovated or process butter is the product made by melting butter and reworking, without the addition or use of chemicals or any substances except milk, cream or salt, and contains not more than 16% of water and at least 80% of milk fat.
97.01(3) (3) "Contaminated with filth" applies to any food not securely protected from dust, dirt and, as far as may be necessary by all reasonable means, from all foreign or injurious contaminations.
97.01(4) (4) "Department" means the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
97.01(4m) (4m) "Distressed food" means food, or packages or containers of food, that may have been damaged, or rendered unsafe or unsuitable for sale or use as food while being transported, stored, handled or sold or the food the label of which has been lost, defaced or obliterated.
97.01(5) (5) "Federal act" means the federal food, drug and cosmetic act, as amended (Title 21 USC 301 et seq.) or the federal wholesome meat act, as amended (Title 21 USC 71 et seq.), or the federal poultry products inspection act, as amended (Title 21 USC 451 et seq.), or the federal fair packaging and labeling act (Title 15 USC 1451 et seq.) which may be applicable.
97.01(6) (6) "Food" means:
97.01(6)(a) (a) Articles used for food or drink by persons.
97.01(6)(b) (b) Chewing gum.
97.01(6)(c) (c) Articles used for components of matters specified in pars. (a) and (b).
97.01(8) (8) "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article. A requirement made under this chapter that any word, statement, or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper if any, of the retail package of such article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. "Immediate container" does not include package liners.
97.01(9) (9) "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the article.
97.01(10) (10)
97.01(10)(a)(a) "Milk" means the whole, fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows. Milk shall contain not less than 3% of milk fat, and not less than 8.25% of milk solids not fat. Milk may be standardized by the addition or removal of cream or by the addition of skim milk. When so standardized milk sold in final package form shall contain not less than 3.25% of milk fat, and not less than 8.25% [8.7%] of milk solids not fat.
97.01(10)(b) (b) "Lowfat milk" means milk from which sufficient milk fat has been removed to produce a food having a milk fat content of either 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% or 2% and a milk solids not fat content of not less than 10%.
97.01(10)(c) (c) "Skim milk" means milk from which sufficient milk fat has been removed to reduce its milk fat content to less than 0.5% and which has a milk solids not fat content of not less than 9%.
97.01 Note NOTE: Sub. (10), as renumbered, is shown as affected by 1983 Wis. Act 536. Act 536 amends (a) by deleting "8.25%" and inserting "8.7%", here shown in brackets. Act 536 also creates (b) and (c). The effective date of Act 536 is shown in Section 4 as follows:
Effective date text Section 4. Effective date. This act takes effect on the first day of the 3rd month commencing after the governor certifies, by executive order directed to the secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection and published in the official state newspaper, that all states contiguous to the borders of this state have in effect milk content requirements identical to those requirements created by this act.
97.01(11) (11) "Nonfat dry milk" means the product resulting from the removal of fat and water from milk, and contains the lactose, milk proteins and milk minerals in the same relative proportions as in the fresh milk from which made. It contains not over 5% by weight of moisture. The fat content is not over 1 1/2% by weight unless otherwise indicated.
97.01(12) (12) "Package" means any container or wrapper in which any food is enclosed for use in the delivery or display of that food to retail purchasers, but does not include:
97.01(12)(a) (a) Shipping containers or wrappings used solely for the transportation of any food in bulk or in quantity to manufacturers, packers or processors, or to wholesale or retail distributors.
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