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• 4 00d • • ORDINANCE NO. 3551 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO AND REGULATING THE SALE OF MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS; PROVIDING FOR THE GRADING AND FOR THE INSPECTION OF THE PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING THEREOF; REQUIRING PERMITS; DEFINING OFFENSES; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 3139 AND ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: DEFINITIONS The following definitions shall apply in the interpreta- tion and enforcement of this ordinance. A. MILK -- Milk is hereby defined to be the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows which contains not less than 8i per cent milk solids-not-fat and not less than 3.5 per cent milk fat; Provided, however, that nothing in these rules and regulations shall prohibit the sale to creameries, cheese factories, milk plants or milk distributors of the whole unadulterated milk from any healthy cow whose milk tests below the standard herein fixed. A-1. GOAT MILK -- Goat milk is the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milk- ing of healthy goats. The word "milk" shall be interpreted to include goat milk. B. MILKFAT Milkfat, or butterfat, is the fat of milk. B-1. CREAM, LIGHT CREAM, OR TABLE CREAM -- Cream, light cream, or table cream is a portion of milk which contains not less than 20 per cent milk-fat. B-2. SOUR CREAM -- Sour cream is cream the acidity of which is more than 0.20 per cent, expressed as lactic acid. B-3. WHIPPING CREAM -- Whipping cream is cream which contains not less than 30 per cent milkfat. B-4. HALF AND HALF -- Half and Half is a product con- sisting of a mixture of milk and cream homogenized which con- tains not less than 11.5 per cent milkfat. B-5. RECONSTITUTED, OR RECOMBINED HALF AND HALF -- Reconstituted, or recombined half and half is a product result- ing from the combination of reconstituted milk or reconstituted skim milk with cream or reconstituted cream, homogenized, which contains not less than 11.5 per cent milk fat. B-6. WHIPPED CREAM -- Whipped cream is cream to which a harmless gas has been added to cause whipping of the product. It may also contain sugar, other harmless flavoring and a harmless stabilizer. C. CONCENTRATED MILK -- Concentrated milk is a fluid product, unsterilized and unsweetened resulting from the removal of a considerable portion cf the water from milk. When re- combined with water, in accordance with instructions printed on the container, the resulting product conforms with the standards of milkfat and solids-not-fat of milk as defined above . C-1. CONCENTRATED MILK PRODUCTS -- Concentrated milk products shall be taken to mean and to include homogenized con- centrated milk, vitamin D concentrated milk, concentrated skim milk, concentrated flavored milk, concentrated milk or concen- trated skim milk, as the case may be and which when recombined