7 U.S.C. § 4501 : US Code - Section 4501: Congressional findings and declaration of policy

Search 7 U.S.C. § 4501 : US Code - Section 4501: Congressional findings and declaration of policy

(a) Congress finds that - 
(1) dairy products are basic foods that are a valuable part of
the human diet;
(2) the production of dairy products plays a significant role
in the Nation's economy the milk from which dairy products are
manufactured is produced by thousands of milk producers, and
dairy products are consumed by millions of people throughout the
United States;
(3) dairy products must be readily available and marketed
efficiently to ensure that the people of the United States
receive adequate nourishment;
(4) the maintenance and expansion of existing markets for dairy
products are vital to the welfare of milk producers and those
concerned with marketing, using, and producing dairy products, as
well as to the general economy of the Nation; and
(5) dairy products move in interstate and foreign commerce, and
dairy products that do not move in such channels of commerce
directly burden or affect interstate commerce of dairy products.
(b) It, therefore, is declared to be the policy of Congress that
it is in the public interest to authorize the establishment,
through the exercise of the powers provided herein, of an orderly
procedure for financing (through assessments on all milk produced
in the United States for commercial use and on imported dairy
products) and carrying out a coordinated program of promotion
designed to strengthen the dairy industry's position in the
marketplace and to maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets
and uses for fluid milk and dairy products. Nothing in this
subchapter may be construed to provide for the control of
production or otherwise limit the right of individual milk
producers to produce milk or the right of any person to import
dairy products.