---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 1210.3"
title: "21"
number: "1210.3"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/1210.3"
---

# §1210.3. Definitions.

- (a) **Secretary.** Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- (b) **Commissioner.** Commissioner means the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
- (c) **Milk.** For the purposes of the act and of the regulations in this part:
- (d) **Condensed milk.** Condensed milk, as the term is used in [section 3](/cfr/21/3.md), paragraph 2, of the Federal Import Milk Act, includes evaporated milk in the manufacture of which sterilization of the milk and cream is a necessary and usual process; it includes sweetened condensed milk only if it is prepared by a process which insures sterilization of the milk and cream. Condensed milk, as the term is used in [section 3](/cfr/21/3.md), paragraph 3, of the Federal Import Milk Act, means sweetened condensed milk.
- (e) **Sweetened condensed milk.** Sweetened condensed milk conforms to the definition and standard of identity for such food as set out in [§ 131.120](/cfr/21/131.120.md) of this chapter.
- (f) **Evaporated milk.** Evaporated milk conforms to the definition and standard of identity for such food as set out in [§ 131.130](/cfr/21/131.130.md) of this chapter.
- (g) **Cream.** Cream is that portion of the milk, rich in milk fat, which rises to the surface of milk on standing or is separated from it by centrifugal force. (See [§§ 131.150 through 131.157](/cfr/21/131.150..131.157.md) of this chapter).
- (h) **Pasteurization.** Pasteurization is the process of heating every particle of milk or cream to at least 143 °F., and holding it at such temperature continuously for at least 30 minutes, or to at least 161 °F., and holding it at such temperature continuously for at least 15 seconds.
- (i) **Shipper.** A shipper is anyone, other than a common carrier, who ships, transports, or causes to be shipped or transported into the United States milk or cream owned by him.

## Notes

### Amendments

[38 FR 32104, Nov. 20, 1973, as amended at 42 FR 14091, Mar. 15, 1977]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 141-149.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 32104, Nov. 20, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[38 FR 32104, Nov. 20, 1973, as amended at 42 FR 14091, Mar. 15, 1977]