264 DAIRYING. 



GOVERNMENT STANDARDS OF PURITY FOR MILK 

 AND ITS PRODUCTS.* 



A.— 31ilk.s. 



1. Milk is the fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the 

 complete milking of one or more healthy cows, properly fed and 

 kept, excluding that obtained within fifteen days before and 

 ten days after calving, and contains not less than eight and 

 one-half (8.5) per cent of solids not fat, and not less than three 

 and one-quarter (3.25) per cent of milk-fat. 



2. Blended milk is milk modified in its composition so as to 

 have a definite and stated percentage of one or more of its con- 

 stituents. 



3. Skim milk is milk from which a part or all of the cream has 

 been removed, and contains nnt less than nine and one-quarter 

 (9.25) per cent of milk solids. 



4. Pasteurized milk is milk that has been heated below boiling, 

 but sufficiently to kill most of the active organisms present, and 

 immediately cooled to 50° Fahr. or lower. 



5. Sterilized milk is milk that has been heated at the tempera- 

 ture of boiling water or higher for a length of time sufficient to 

 kill all organisms present. 



6. Condensed milk, evaporated milk, is milk from which a 

 considerable portion of water has been evaporated, and contains 

 not less than twenty-eight (28) per cent of milk solids, of which 

 not less than twenty-seven and five-tenths (27.5) per cent is 

 milk-fat. 



7. Sweetened condensed milk is milk from which a considerable 

 portion of water has been evaporated and to which sugar (sucrose) 

 has been added, and contains not less than twenty-eight (28) 

 per cent of milk solids, of which not less than twenty-seven and 

 five-tenths (27.5) per cent is milk-fat. 



8. Condensed skim milk is skim milk from which a considerable 

 portion of water has been evaporated. 



9. Buttermilk is the product that remains when butter is re- 

 moved from milk or cream in the process of churning. 



* Proclaimed by the Secretary of Agriculture, June 26. 1906. (Circ. 

 No. 19, Office oi the Secretary, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.) 



