Section 64041 Of Article 2. General Provisions From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 22. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 2.
64041
. It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative
determination, that the provisions of this chapter are enacted in the
exercise of the police power of this state for the purposes of
protecting and furthering the public health and welfare. It is
further declared that the dairy industry of this state is affected
with a public interest, in that, among other things:
(a) The production, processing, manufacture, and distribution of
milk and other dairy products constitute a paramount industry of this
state which not only provides substantial and required revenues for
the state and its political subdivisions, and employment and a means
of livelihood for many thousands of its population, but also
furnishes essential foods that are vital to the public health and
welfare.
(b) The stabilization, maintenance, and expansion of the dairy
industry of California, and of the state, nationwide, and foreign
markets for its products, are necessary to assure the consuming
public an adequate supply of foods which are indispensable in a
proper human diet, to protect, for the state and its political
subdivisions, a necessary source of tax revenue, to provide and
maintain an adequate standard of living for a great segment of the
population of this state, to maintain proper wage scales for those
engaged in the dairy industry, and to maintain existing employment.
(c) The essentiality of milk and other dairy products in a proper
human nutrition and to the maintenance of a high level of public
health is such as to require that the public be made thoroughly aware
thereof, and be protected against misrepresentation and deception,
by the dissemination of accurate and scientific information relative
to the healthful qualities of dairy products, their various
classifications and the food values and industrial and medicinal uses
thereof, the methods, care and precautions necessary to their proper
production, processing, manufacture, and distribution, and the
necessary costs and expenses thereof, and the necessity and
desirability on the part of the public of using and consuming dairy
products of the highest standards of quality.