---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 58.159"
title: "7"
number: "58.159"
heading: "Terms."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/58.159"
---

# §58.159. Terms.

- (a) **Fresh and sweet.** Free from “old milk” flavor of developed acidity or other off-flavors.
- (b) **Normal feed.** Regional feed flavors, such as alfalfa, clover, silage, or similar feeds or grasses (weed flavors, such as peppergrass, French weed, onion, garlic, or other obnoxious weeds, excluded).
- (c) **Off-flavors.** Tastes or odors, such as utensil, bitter, barny, or other associated defects when present to a degree readily detectable.
- (d) **Developed acidity.** An apparent increase from the normal acidity of the milk to a degree of taste and odor which is detectable.
- (e) **Extraneous matter.** Foreign substances, such as filth, hair, insects and fragments thereof, and rodents, and materials, such as metal, fiber, wood and glass.
- (f) **Sediment.** Fine particles of material other than the foreign substances and materials defined in [paragraph (e)](#e) of this section.
- (g) **C.I.P.** The abbreviation of an approved system of cleaning pipelines called “Cleaned-in-Place.”
- (h) **Mechanical cleaning.** Denotes cleaning solely by circulation and/or flowing chemical detergent solution and water rinses onto and over the surfaces to be cleaned, by mechanical means.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 40 FR 47911, Oct. 10, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627.

### Source

Source: 23 FR 9410, Dec. 5, 1958, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 42 FR 32514, June 27, 1977, and further redesignated at 46 FR 63203, Dec. 31, 1981.