(a) When the director, any health officer acting as an agent of the director, or a milk inspection officer acting as an agent of the director having jurisdiction, determines that the oral ingestion by a human being of any raw milk or certified raw milk supply has caused disease in a human being, he shall prohibit the use, sale, or disposal of such milk, except by a method approved by the director, until such cause has been corrected or eliminated. Application may be made by the director or any such officer to the superior court of the county where the supply is produced or stored in order to obtain an injunction prohibiting the use, sale, or disposal of such milk. If the court determines that it is a reasonable medical probability that the ingestion by a human being of such milk supply was the proximate cause of a case of disease in such human being and that the milk supply is unsafe for human consumption, the court shall take such action as is necessary to enforce the order. When the court thereafter determines that it is a reasonable medical probability that the ingestion by a human being of such milk supply will not be the proximate cause of a case of disease in a human being and that the milk supply is safe for human consumption, such order of prohibition shall be dissolved. (b) When the director, any health officer acting as an agent of the director, or a milk inspection officer acting as an agent of the director having jurisdiction, has good cause to believe, as a result of either a laboratory test by a laboratory certified by the department or a recognized test, on the animal or the milk from the animal or the herd, that a case of typhoid fever, salmonella infection, bacillary dysentery, diphtheria, respiratory streptococcal infection, brucellosis, or tuberculosis, is present in one or more cows or in the milk of one or more cows of any dairy herd, he shall prohibit the use, sale, or disposal of the raw milk or certified raw milk from the herd containing the diseased cow or cows, except by a method approved by the director, until such cause has been corrected or eliminated. Application may be made by the director or any such officer to the superior court of the county where the milk supply is produced or stored in order to obtain an injunction prohibiting the use, sale, or disposal of such milk. If the court determines that it is a reasonable medical probability that such disease is present in the milk of one or more cows of any dairy herd and that the milk supply is unsafe for human consumption, the court shall take such action as is necessary to enforce the order. When the court thereafter determines that it is a reasonable medical probability that such disease is no longer present on the premises of such dairy and that the milk supply is safe for human consumption, such order of prohibition shall be dissolved. (c) When the director, any health officer acting as an agent of the director, or a milk inspection officer acting as an agent of the director, has good cause to believe, as a result of a laboratory test by a laboratory certified by the department or a recognized test, on the animal or the milk, that a raw milk or certified raw milk supply under the control of the producer of such milk supply is suspected to be the source of an infection for a communicable disease, or that a raw milk or certified raw milk supply may cause an infection of a communicable disease, he shall prohibit the use, sale, or disposal of such milk, except by a method approved by the director, until such cause has been corrected or eliminated. However, in the case of such a milk supply being under the control of either a retailer or distributor to retailers, the director or his agent may only prohibit the use, sale, or disposal of such milk in a manner used for any other market milk or milk product. (d) Actions taken pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (c) shall in each instance be subject to judicial review under Section 1085 of the Co
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