In this chapter:

1. (1) “Bulk milk tanker” means a mobile bulk container used to transport milk, fluid milk products, whey, or whey cream in bulk from a dairy farm, or to, or from, a dairy plant in this state. “Bulk milk tanker” includes a container permanently mounted on a motor vehicle or designed to be towed by a motor vehicle, and includes all equipment and accessories related to the container. “Bulk milk tanker” does not include a mobile bulk container used by a milk producer solely to transport the producer’s own milk to the milk producer’s bulk tank or to a licensed dairy plant operated by the milk producer.
2. (1m) “Bulk milk tanker cleaning facility” means a facility where a bulk milk tanker or its appurtenances are cleaned and sanitized.
3. (1s) “Bulk milk weigher and sampler” means any person who measures milk for payment purposes or collects official milk samples, or both, and is licensed under this chapter.
4. (2) “Bulk tank” means a permanent or semi-permanent tank, container, or silo used to receive, cool, or store bulk quantities of milk on a dairy farm. “Bulk tank” does not include milk cans.
5. (3) “Dairy farm” means a dairy farm as defined in s. 97.22 (1) (a), Stats., operated by a milk producer and includes a milkhouse.

6. (4) “Dairy plant” means any of the following:

   1. (a) A place where a dairy product is manufactured or processed for sale or distribution as human food.
   2. (b) A receiving station.
   3. (c) A transfer station.
   4. (d) For the purposes of assigning milk producer license application responsibilities, a milk contractor, or any business under par. (a) or (b), that submits a milk producers license application on behalf of a milk producer and thereby certifies that the milk producer’s dairy farm and milking operations comply with applicable requirements of ch. ATCP 65.
7. (4m) “Department” means the Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
8. (5) “Milk” means normal lacteal secretion that is not visibly changed in color, odor, or texture, practically free of colostrum, obtained by the milking of one or more healthy milking animals, and includes skim milk and cream.
9. (7) “Milk producer” means a milk producer as defined in s. 97.22 (1) (f), Stats.

10. (7m) “Milking animals” means all of the following:

    1. (a) Cows, sheep, and goats.
    2. (b) Other hooved or camelid mammals whose milk is collected and distributed for human consumption.
11. (8) “Processing plant” means processing plant, as defined in s. 97.20 (1) (h), where dairy products, as defined in s. 97.20 (1) (b), are processed.
12. (9) “Receiving station” means a facility designed for the receipt and bulk storage of milk, and used to receive or store milk in bulk. “Receiving station” does not include a processing plant or a facility used to distribute pasteurized milk in bottled or packaged form to consumers.
13. (9e) “Single-farm pick-up” means the one-time transfer of properly cooled milk, as outlined in s. ATCP 82.10 (6), originating from a single licensed milk producer’s milking animals and stored in a bulk milk tank, to a bulk milk tanker owned or operated by the same licensed milk producer, or owned or operated by the producer’s dairy plant or milk contractor, and the transportation of that milk to the receiving plant.
14. (9m) “Temperature measuring device” means a device that is designed to measure and display the temperature, without the ability to record the temperature, of the contents of a vessel.
15. (9s) “Temperature recording device” means a device that is capable of measuring and recording the temperature of the contents of a vessel.
16. (10) “Transfer station” means a facility designed and used solely to transfer milk from one bulk milk tanker or transport container to another without intervening storage.

History

History: Cr. Register, November, 1994, No. 467, eff. 12-1-94; CR 07-006: cr. (1m) and (7m), am. (3) and (5), Register January 2008 No. 625, eff. 2-1-08; CR 13-104: cr. (1s), am. (2), cr. (4m), r. (6) Register July 2014 No. 703, eff. 8-1-14; CR 24-086: am. (1), (1s), (3), renum. (4) to (4) (intro.) and am., cr. (4) (a) to (d), am. (5), (7), (7m) (b), (8), (9), cr. (9e) to (9s), am. (10) Register October 2025 No. 838, eff. 11-1-25; correction in (4) (d) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 4., Stats., and correction in (8) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register October 2025 No. 838.