7 CFR § 58.159 - Terms.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s58.159"
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title: "7 CFR § 58.159 - Terms."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "58.159"
section_name: "Terms."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946 AND THE EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT"
part_number: "58"
part_name: "GRADING AND INSPECTION, GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR APPROVED PLANTS AND STANDARDS FOR GRADES OF DAIRY PRODUCTS"
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last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 1621-1627."
regulatory_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."
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# 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) 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.