Any milk or milk product shipped into this state or produced, processed, or delivered in this state in violation of the laws of this state or the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner pursuant thereto shall be condemned by the Commissioner and may be rendered unfit for marketing by the addition of a pyoktanin solution or other approved harmless coloring matter to notify the consuming public that the milk or milk product is ungraded and unfit for human consumption.
(Code 1933, § 42-618, enacted by Ga. L. 1937, p. 725, § 1; Ga. L. 1961, p. 501, § 8; Ga. L. 1980, p. 981, § 18.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Milk import permit deniable only when milk unsanitary or when importer cannot show equal sanitary standards.
- Permits for the importation into Georgia of milk or milk products may be denied by the Commissioner of Agriculture only when the applicant for such permit cannot show that the sanitary standards for the product in force where it is produced and processed are as adequate as such standards in this state, or when an inspection of the proposed shipment discloses that it does not conform to the sanitary standards of this state; such permits may not be denied solely to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-202.