§ 1138.10 - Producer-handler.  


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  • Producer-handler means any person: (a) Who processes and packages milk from his or her own farm's production;

    (b) Who has route disposition within the marketing area consisting of any portion of such milk;

    (c) Who receives no fluid milk products from other dairy farmers or from any source other than a pool plant and whose receipts from pool plants are not in excess of 11,000 pounds per month;

    (d) Who disposes of no other source milk as Class I milk except by increasing the nonfat milk solids content of the fluid milk products received from own farm production or pool plants; and

    (e) Who furnishes to the Market Administrator for verification, subject to review by the Secretary, evidence that the care and management of all the dairy animals and other resources necessary to produce the entire amount of fluid milk products handled (excluding receipts from pool plants) is the personal enterprise of and at the personal risk of such person and the operation of the processing and distribution business is the personal enterprise of and at the personal risk of the same person.