---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1170.8"
title: "7"
number: "1170.8"
heading: "Price reporting specifications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1170.8"
---

# §1170.8. Price reporting specifications.


The following are the reporting specifications for each dairy product:

- (a) **Specifications for Cheddar Cheese Prices—**
  - (1) **Variety—** Cheddar cheese.
  - (2) **Style—** 40-pound blocks.
  - (3) **Age—** Not less than 4 days or more than 30 days on date of sale. Exclude cheese that will be aged.
  - (4) **Grade—** Product meets Wisconsin State Brand or USDA Grade A or better standards.
  - (5) **Color—** Colored and within the color range of 6-8 on the National Cheese Institute color chart.
  - (6) **Packaging—** Price should reflect cheese wrapped in a sealed, airtight package in corrugated or solid fiberboard containers with a reinforcing inner liner or sleeve. Exclude all other packaging costs from the reported price.
  - (7) **Exclude—** Intra-company sales, resales of purchased cheese, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), cheese produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher cheese produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program or other premium-assisted sales (for example, export assistance sales through the Cooperatives Working Together program), and cheese certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.
- (b) **Specifications for Butter Prices—**
  - (1) **Variety—** 80 percent butterfat, salted, fresh or storage.
  - (2) **Grade—** Product meets USDA Grade AA standards.
  - (3) **Packaging—** 25-kilogram and 68-pound box sales.
  - (4) **Exclude—** Unsalted and Grade A butter, intra-company sales, resales of purchased butter, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), butter produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher butter produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program or other premium-assisted sales (for example, export assistance sales through the CWT program), and butter certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.
- (c) **Specifications for Dry Whey Prices—**
  - (1) **Variety—** Edible nonhygroscopic.
  - (2) **Age—** No more than 180 days.
  - (3) **Grade—** Product meets USDA Extra Grade standards.
  - (4) **Packaging or container—** 25-kilogram bag, 50-pound bag, tote, or tanker.
  - (5) **Exclude—** Sales of Grade A dry whey, intra-company sales, resales of purchased dry whey, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), dry whey produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher dry whey produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), premium-assisted sales, and dry whey certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.
- (d) **Specifications for the Nonfat Dry Milk Prices—**
  - (1) **Variety—** Non-fortified.
  - (2) **Age—** No more than 180 days.
  - (3) **Grade—** Product meets USDA Extra Grade or USPH 2 Grade A standards.
  - (4) **Packaging or container—** 25-kilogram bag, 50-pound bag, tote, or tanker.
  - (5) **Exclude—** Nonfat dry milk manufactured using high heat process, sales of instant nonfat dry milk, sales of dry buttermilk products, intra-company sales, resales of purchased nonfat dry milk, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), nonfat dry milk produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher nonfat dry milk produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program or other premium-assisted sales, and nonfat dry milk certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 34181, June 17, 2008, as amended at 77 FR 8721, Feb. 15, 2012; 90 FR 6652, Jan. 17, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1637-1637b, as amended by Pub. L. 106-532, 114 Stat. 2541; Pub. L. 107-171, 116 Stat. 207; and Pub. L. 111-239, 124 Stat. 2501.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 34181, June 17, 2008, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 34181, June 17, 2008, as amended at 77 FR 8721, Feb. 15, 2012; 90 FR 6652, Jan. 17, 2025]