---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1000.4"
title: "7"
number: "1000.4"
heading: "Plant."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1000.4"
---

# §1000.4. Plant.

- (a) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, plant means the land, buildings, facilities, and equipment constituting a single operating unit or establishment at which milk or milk products are received, processed, or packaged, including a facility described in [paragraph (b)(2)](#b-2) of this section if the facility receives the milk of more than one dairy farmer.
- (b) Plant shall not include:
  - (1) A separate building without stationary storage tanks that is used only as a reload point for transferring bulk milk from one tank truck to another or a separate building used only as a distribution point for storing packaged fluid milk products in transit for route disposition; or
  - (2) An on-farm facility operated as part of a single dairy farm entity for the separation of cream and skim or the removal of water from milk.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674, and 7253.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 47899, Sept. 1, 1999, unless otherwise noted.