P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 1092
The following terms have the meaning hereinbelow expressed:
(a) Secretary. — The Secretary of Agriculture.
(b) Administrator. — The Milk Industry Regulation Administrator.
(c) Office. — The Office of the Milk Industry Regulation Administrator.
(d) Person. — Any individual, corporation, association, cooperative, partnership, or any other type of legal organization.
(e) Producer. — Any person who is owner, administrator, or in charge of dairies.
(f) Processor. — Any person who is owner, administrator, or in charge of a milk pasteurizing and homogenizing establishment.
(g) Sterilizer. — Any person who is owner, administrator, or in charge of a milk sterilizing establishment.
(h) Fresh milk. — Milk in its natural state, pasteurized and homogenized, which is sold for direct consumption to the public.
(i) Milk surplus. — Milk produced in excess of fresh milk market requirements, used to manufacture milk byproducts, or for canning condensed, evaporated, powdered, or otherwise.
(j) Distribution level. — Means of distribution; any processor, agent or retailer who sells fresh milk.
(k) Agent. — The natural or juridical person who, after being granted a license by the Administrator, sells fresh milk from a processor to retailers and consumers.
(l) Fluid milk. — Milk in its liquid state whether raw, pasteurized and homogenized, Ultra Pasteurized and Aseptic Milk (UHT Milk, for its English acronym) or processed in such a manner that its by-product maintains a liquid state, that is sold in different types, formulas or categories for direct consumption by the public.
(m) Ultra Pasteurized and Aseptic Milk (UHT Milk, for its English acronym). — Denomination of milk that has been pasteurized through an aseptic chemical process at temperatures of at least two hundred and eighty degrees (280°) Fahrenheit followed by flash cooling. This milk is sold to consumers in containers that do not require refrigeration while they remain unopened.
History —June 11, 1957, No. 34, p. 67, § 1; July 20, 1979, No. 127, p. 306, § 1; Dec. 14, 2007, No. 209, § 1.