65-775. Adoption of rules and regulations.
65-775
65-775. Adoption of rules and regulations.(a) The secretary may adopt rules and regulations:
(1) Establishing criteria for the sanitary production, processing,handling, sampling,examination, testing, grading and labeling of all milk, milk products and dairyproducts sold orproduced in the state of Kansas;
(2) providing criteria for the inspection of dairy farms, dairy manufacturingplants, plantsfabricating single service articles, milk or cream transfer stations, milk orcream receivingstations, milk haulers and milk distributors;
(3) establishing sanitation standards and equipment and utensil standards fordairy farms,dairy manufacturing plants, plants fabricating single service articles,transfer stations, receivingstations, milk haulers and milk distributors;
(4) establishing standards of identity formilk, milk products and dairyproducts. Such standards shall take intoconsideration corresponding federal standards ofidentity where such standards exist;
(5) prescribing for any person regulated under this act any bookkeeping orreportingrequirements deemed necessary by the secretary, including the maintenance ofrecords andmaking such records available to the secretary;
(6) regarding bacterial and coliform standards or other quality standards formilk, milkproducts, or dairy products; and
(7) establishing specifications for apparatus and chemicals and proceduresfor sampling,testing and weighing milk, cream, butter and any other milk products or dairyproducts. Thesespecifications, directions and other technical requirements shall conform,insofar as practical, tothe official methods of analysis of the association of official analyticalchemists or any other suchsimilar organization.
(b) Any rules and regulations promulgated under this act shallconform, insofar aspracticable, to the pasteurized milk ordinance, and the policies adopted by theinterstate milkshippers conference.
History: L. 2001, ch. 32, § 5;L. 2002, ch. 181, § 16; July 1.