Article 6. Records of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 21. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 6.

Every distributor, person who sells at wholesale, or manufacturer of milk, cream, or any dairy product shall maintain and keep, for a period of three years from their initial recordation, or for a period of three years from their expiration date, whichever period is longer, all of the following records:
  (a) A record of all milk, cream, or dairy products received, detailed as to location, names and addresses of suppliers, prices paid, and deductions or charges made, and the use to which the milk or cream was put.
  (b) A record of all milk, cream, or dairy products sold, classified as to kind and grade of milk, cream, or dairy product, showing where the milk, cream, and dairy products were sold, the quantities sold, the amounts received for the sales, and the written price schedules maintained by the distributor, person who sells at wholesale, or manufacturer for all milk, cream, and dairy products sold.
  (c) A record of the wastage or loss of milk or any dairy product.
  (d) A record of all costs of manufacturing, processing, handling, sale, and delivery, including overhead costs.
  (e) A record of all property or financial transactions, other than those for which records are maintained under subdivision (b), between the distributor, person who sells at wholesale, or manufacturer and wholesale customers.
  (f) Other records that the director may deem necessary for the proper enforcement of this chapter.

The director shall have access to, and may enter at all reasonable hours, any place where any dairy product is being processed, bottled, stored, kept, or sold, or where the books, papers, records, or documents pertaining to any transaction which relates to any dairy product is kept. He may inspect and copy such books, papers, records, or documents in any place within the state.

Within 60 days of the effective date of this section, each manufacturing milk handler shall provide the director with a list of the name, address, and date of every current contract between the handler and manufacturing milk producers. Monthly thereafter, the handler shall report to the director the same information on all terminated, new, and amended contracts which has not been previously reported. The director may assess a one hundred dollar ($100) penalty against any manufacturing milk handler who fails to file the required report for each report not filed.

Any record or report which is made to the director pursuant to this article, or any contract required to be filed pursuant to this chapter, is confidential and shall not be divulged, except if necessary for the proper determination of any court proceeding or hearing before the director.