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The following terms have the meaning hereinbelow expressed:\n(a) Secretary. — The Secretary of Agriculture.\n(b) Administrator. — The Milk Industry Regulation Administrator.\n(c) Office. — The Office of the Milk Industry Regulation Administrator.\n(d) Person. — Any individual, corporation, association, cooperative, partnership, or any other type of legal organization.\n(e) Producer. — Any person who is owner, administrator, or in charge of dairies.\n(f) Processor. — Any person who is owner, administrator, or in charge of a milk pasteurizing and homogenizing establishment.\n(g) Sterilizer. — Any person who is owner, administrator, or in charge of a milk sterilizing establishment.\n(h) Fresh milk. — Milk in its natural state, pasteurized and homogenized, which is sold for direct consumption to the public.\n(i) Milk surplus. — Milk produced in excess of fresh milk market requirements, used to manufacture milk byproducts, or for canning condensed, evaporated, powdered, or otherwise.\n(j) Distribution level. — Means of distribution; any processor, agent or retailer who sells fresh milk.\n(k) Agent.

ure milk byproducts, or for canning condensed, evaporated, powdered, or otherwise.\n(j) Distribution level. — Means of distribution; any processor, agent or retailer who sells fresh milk.\n(k) Agent. — The natural or juridical person who, after being granted a license by the Administrator, sells fresh milk from a processor to retailers and consumers.\n(l) Fluid milk. — Milk in its liquid state whether raw, pasteurized and homogenized, Ultra Pasteurized and Aseptic Milk (UHT Milk, for its English acronym) or processed in such a manner that its by-product maintains a liquid state, that is sold in different types, formulas or categories for direct consumption by the public.\n(m) Ultra Pasteurized and Aseptic Milk (UHT Milk, for its English acronym). — Denomination of milk that has been pasteurized through an aseptic chemical process at temperatures of at least two hundred and eighty degrees (280°) Fahrenheit followed by flash cooling. This milk is sold to consumers in containers that do not require refrigeration while they remain unopened.\nHistory —June 11, 1957, No. 34, p. 67, § 1; July 20, 1979, No. 127, p. 306, § 1; Dec. 14, 2007, No. 209, § 1.