195 Relating to: licensing of plants that process certain foods made with milk or milk products.

Date of enactment: April 2, 2012
2011 Senate Bill 517 Date of publication*: April 16, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 195

An Act to create 97.20 (2) (e) 5. of the statutes; relating to: licensing of plants that process certain foods made with milk or milk products.

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

Section 1 . 97.20 (2) (e) 5. of the statutes is created to read:

97.20 (2) (e) 5. A food processing plant licensed under s. 97.29 that processes dairy products into a prepared food if all of the following apply:

a. 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.

b. The federal food and drug administration has not prescribed a standard of identity under title 21 of the code of federal regulations for the prepared food.