SB512: Bill Text

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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE

2015 Senate BILL 512

January 6, 2016 - Introduced by Senators Moulton and Marklein, cosponsored by Representatives Nerison, E. Brooks, Ballweg, Hutton, T. Larson, Murphy, Murtha, A. Ott and Tauchen. Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Small Business, and Tourism.

SB512,1,11 An Act to repeal 97.20 (1) (g), 97.20 (2) (e) 5. b., 97.21 (1) (d), 97.22 (1) (e), 97.23 (1) (b), 97.24 (1) (cm), 97.29 (1) (g) 1. and 2., 97.29 (1) (g) 3. and 97.29 (1) (g) 4. to 8.; to renumber and amend 97.20 (1) (b), 97.29 (1) (g) (intro.), 97.29 (1) (h) and 97.29 (1) (h); to consolidate, renumber and amend 97.20 (2) (e) 5. (intro.) and a.; to amend 97.01 (1), 97.01 (10) (a), 97.01 (11), 97.09 (1), 97.18 (1) (a), 97.20 (1) (a), 97.20 (1) (h), 97.24 (1) (ar), 97.25 (1) (b), 97.27 (1) (b) 5., 97.29 (1) (h) 2., 126.01 (17) and 234.90 (1) (cp); to create 97.01 (10) (b), 97.01 (10) (c), 97.20 (1) (b) 1. to 5., 97.20 (1) (fg), 97.20 (1) (fm) and 97.29 (1) (h) 1. to 13. of the statutes; and to affect 1983 Wisconsin Act 536; relating to: dairy plant and food processing plant licensing requirements and granting rule-making authority.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill makes changes to food regulations for dairy plants and food processing plants.

Under current law, an operator of a dairy plant must obtain a license to operate from the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). The operator of a food processing plant must obtain a separate license from DATCP.

Under the bill, a licensed food processing plant that processes dairy products into prepared foods that are not dairy products need not also obtain a dairy plant license if the dairy products used at the plant are produced by a licensed dairy plant and are pasteurized or otherwise treated for safe consumption. The bill changes the definition of "dairy product" to include milk from cows, goats, sheep, or hooved or camelid mammals, any product or by-product derived solely from that milk, any item that meets a standard of identity under the federal regulations or the U.S. Code, and any item that fails to meet a federal standard of identity solely because it contains milk from goats, sheep, or hooved or camelid mammals instead of cow's milk.

The bill also changes other definitions relating to dairy plants and food processing plants.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB512,1 Section 1. 97.01 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,2,8 97.01 (1) "Butter" means the clean, nonrancid product made by gathering in any manner the fat of fresh or ripened cow's 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.

SB512,2 Section 2. 97.01 (10) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,3,5 97.01 (10) (a) "Milk" means the whole, fresh, clean, lacteal secretion, practically free of colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, goats, or sheep. Milk from cows shall contain not less than 3% of milk fat, and not less than 8.25% of milk solids not fat. Milk from cows may be standardized by the addition or removal of cream or by the addition of concentrated milk, dry whole milk, skim milk, concentrated skim milk, or nonfat milk. Milk from cows may also be standardized by removing water through reverse osmosis or other nonthermal methods and adding potable water. When so standardized, milk from cows sold in final package form shall contain not less than 3.25% of milk fat, and not less than 8.25% of milk solids not fat. Milk may be homogenized.

SB512,3 Section 3. 97.01 (10) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

SB512,3,10 97.01 (10) (b) "Lowfat milk" means cow's milk from which sufficient milk fat has been removed to produce a food having a milk fat content of either 0.5 percent, 1 percent, 1.5 percent, or 2 percent and a milk solids not fat content of not less than 10 percent.

SB512,4 Section 4. 97.01 (10) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

SB512,3,14 97.01 (10) (c) "Skim milk" means cow's milk from which sufficient milk fat has been removed to reduce its milk fat content to less than 0.5 percent and which has a milk solids not fat content of not less than 9 percent.

SB512,5 Section 5. 97.01 (11) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,3,20 97.01 (11) "Nonfat dry milk" means the product resulting from the removal of fat and water from cow's milk, and contains the lactose, milk proteins and milk minerals in the same relative proportions as in the fresh cow's 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.

SB512,6 Section 6. 97.09 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,4,4 97.09 (1) Definitions and standards of identity, composition, quality and fill of container for foods, and amendments thereto, now or hereafter adopted under the federal act or this chapter are definitions and standards of identity, composition, quality and fill of container under s. 97.03. However, when such action will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, the department may amend, stay or reject such federal regulations or make rules establishing definitions and standards of identity, composition, quality and fill of container for foods where no federal regulations exist, or which differ from federal regulations.

SB512,7 Section 7. 97.18 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,4,17 97.18 (1) (a) For the purposes of this section "oleomargarine" or "margarine" includes oleomargarine, margarine, butterine and other similar substances, fats and fat compounds sufficiently adaptable to the ordinary uses of butter, to lead readily to use as an alternative to butter, but this section shall not apply to lard, cream cheese, cheese food compounds, nor to any other dairy product made exclusively of cow's milk or milk solids with or without added vitamins, if such product is sold or distributed in such manner and form as will clearly distinguish it from butter. Nor shall this section apply to shortenings not churned or emulsified in milk or cream or having a melting point of 112 degrees Fahrenheit or more as determined by the capillary tube method unless there is sold or given away with such shortening any compound which, when mixed with such shortening, makes oleomargarine, butterine or similar substances.

SB512,8 Section 8. 97.20 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,4,21 97.20 (1) (a) "Dairy plant" means any place where a dairy product is manufactured or processed for sale or distribution, and includes a processing plant, receiving station, or transfer station.

SB512,9 Section 9. 97.20 (1) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 97.20 (1) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:

SB512,5,3 97.20 (1) (b) (intro.) "Dairy product" means milk or any product or by-product of milk, or any commodity in which milk or any milk product or by-product is a principal ingredient. any of the following:

SB512,10 Section 10. 97.20 (1) (b) 1. to 5. of the statutes are created to read:

SB512,5,5 97.20 (1) (b) 1. Milk or any product or by-product derived solely from milk.

SB512,5,7 2. Hooved or camelid mammals' milk or any product or by-product derived solely from hooved or camelid mammals' milk.

SB512,5,9 3. An item that meets a definition or standard of identity under 21 CFR 131, 133, 135.3 to 135.140, or 184.1979 or under 21 USC 321a or 321c.

SB512,5,12 4. An item that fails to meet a definition or standard of identity specified in subd. 3. solely because the item contains hooved or camelid mammals' milk or milk from goats or sheep instead of or in addition to milk from cows.

SB512,5,14 5. A product that is ready to eat, sell, distribute, or market and that is made solely of 2 or more of the items under subds. 1. to 4.

SB512,11 Section 11. 97.20 (1) (fg) of the statutes is created to read:

SB512,5,18 97.20 (1) (fg) "Hooved or camelid mammal" includes water buffalo, yaks, and other bovine species; camels, llamas, alpacas, and other camelid species; and horses, donkeys, and other equine species.

SB512,12 Section 12. 97.20 (1) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:

SB512,5,22 97.20 (1) (fm) "Hooved or camelid mammals' milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free of colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy hooved or camelid mammals.

SB512,13 Section 13. 97.20 (1) (g) of the statutes is repealed.

SB512,14 Section 14. 97.20 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB512,6,3 97.20 (1) (h) "Processing plant" means a dairy plant facility engaged in pasteurizing, processing or manufacturing milk or dairy products, or processing dairy products into other dairy products, for sale or distribution.

SB512,15 Section 15. 97.20 (2) (e) 5. (intro.) and a. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 97.20 (2) (e) 5. and amended to read:

SB512,6,12 97.20 (2) (e) 5. A food processing plant licensed under s. 97.29 that processes dairy products into a prepared food that is not a dairy product if all of the following apply: a. The the dairy products used by the food processing plant are manufactured at a dairy plant from ingredients that are pasteurized or are produced under other processes that eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the food safety hazards associated with the dairy products, including aseptically processed foods, high acid foods, heat treated foods, aged foods, cold pack foods, and similarly processed foods.

SB512,16 Section 16. 97.20 (2) (e) 5. b. of the statutes is repealed.

SB512,17 Section 17. 97.21 (1) (d) of the statutes is repealed.

SB512,18 Section 18. 97.22 (1) (e) of the statutes is repealed.

SB512,19 Section 19. 97.23 (1) (b) of the statutes is repealed.