Title 26, Chapter 2, Section 241
( 26-2-241)
In determining the value of milk, cream, or other dairy products by
the use of the Babcock test, it shall be unlawful to give any false
reading or in any way manipulate the test so as to give a higher or
lower percent of butterfat than the milk, cream, or other dairy
products actually contain, or to cause any inaccuracy in reading the
percent of butterfat by securing from any quantity of milk, cream,
or other dairy products to be tested an inaccurate sample for the
test. None other than the Babcock method, or such method of testing
as may be approved by the Commissioner, may be employed when testing
milk or cream, the test of which is to be used as a basis for making
payment for the milk or cream thus tested. None other than the
torsion balanced scales, or such scales as may be approved by the
Commissioner, may be used when weighing cream for testing, when the
tests are to be used as a basis for making payment for cream. It
shall be unlawful to use adjustable scale weights in determining the
weight of cream used in the Babcock test. Only such centrifuge
shall be used as shall meet the approval of the Commissioner.
Specifications for apparatus and chemicals and directions for
testing milk and cream must conform to Standard_Methods_for_the
Examination_of_Dairy_Products, with such additions as shall be
deemed advisable by the Commissioner to make them conform to this
article. All test tubes, bottles, pipettes, burettes, or
instruments used in connection with testing or determining the value
of milk, cream, or other dairy products by the use of the Babcock
test must be United States government standard and shall be approved
by the Commissioner. All milk and cream tests shall be maintained
at a temperature of 135 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit for at least three
minutes before the reading of the percent of butterfat shall be made
and recorded. In reading cream tests, glymol or its equivalent must
be used, and the samples under test must be held for three minutes
in a water bath extending up as high on the graduated neck as the
sample itself does. |