§ 144.12. Credit producers with actual component test.
(a) No individual producers delivering milk or cream, or both, to a milk or cream-receiving or purchasing plant, where the milk or cream is purchased on the basis of the milk components contained therein, may be credited with a greater or lesser percentage or average percentage of milk components than is actually contained in the milk or cream delivered.
(b) No report on a test to determine the milk component content of milk or cream may be of a greater or lesser percentage of milk components than is actually contained in the milk or cream from which the sample was taken. To be a basis of payment to an individual producer, a recheck of a producer’s milk component test shall be made from the next available sample taken after the original test. Rechecks of a producer’s milk component test shall be made when the butterfat varies 0.5% or more or the protein varies 0.3% or more from the most recent test.
Authority The provisions of this § 144.12 amended under section 307 of the Milk Marketing Law (31 P. S. § 700j-307).
Source The provisions of this § 144.12 amended January 11, 2013, effective January 12, 2013, 43 Pa.B. 216. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (237852) to (237853).
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