Food and Agricultural Code section 64014

“Processing” means separating, standardizing, pasteurizing, sterilizing, evaporating, condensing, canning, bottling, packaging, or otherwise preparing milk to manufacture or produce any dairy product. “Processing” does not, however, include separating by a producer, on the dairy where the milk is produced, and milk separated by a producer on the dairy shall not be deemed to have been processed.

Source: Section 64014, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=FAC§ionNum=64014.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2020; accessed Jul. 6, 2026).

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