§ 61837 Producer-Handler Milk Rules

Food and Agricultural Code·California

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•A producer-handler is someone who both makes milk (like a farmer) and sells or packages it.
•When they sell their own raw milk to someone else, they are acting as a producer.
•When they buy milk, pasteurize it, package it, or sell packaged milk, they are acting as a handler.
•This rule helps decide their role in different situations involving milk.

Example

A farmer sells their own raw milk to a store.

The farmer is a producer in this case because they are selling the milk they made.

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§ 61837 Producer-Handler Milk Rules

“Producer-handler” means any person that is both a producer and a handler of market milk. For the purposes of this chapter a producer-handler is a producer in any transaction which involves the sale or delivery of bulk market milk which was produced by him to a handler or to any nonprofit cooperative association of producers, and is a handler in any transaction which involves the purchase, acquisition or receipt by him of market milk, the pasteurization or packaging of market milk, or the sale or delivery of packaged market milk to any person. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1192.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

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producer-handler acquisition transaction association pasteurization

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Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Food and Agricultural Code. Section 61837.

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