"cream line" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cream + line.",
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          "ref": "1914, Samuel Henry Ayers, William Trimble Johnson, Removal of garlic flavor from milk and cream:",
          "text": "There is produced, however, at this temperature a cooked taste and the cream line is reduced to a greater extent than when the milk is heated and blown at 145° F.",
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          "ref": "2012, S Herschdoerfer, Quality Control in the Food Industry, →ISBN, page 81:",
          "text": "As pasteurization reduced cream line by about 15% some dairymen slightly under-pasteurized their milk in order to outsell their competitors.",
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          "ref": "2013, Kendra Smith-Howard, Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900, →ISBN, page 33:",
          "text": "As experts debated its merits, ordinary citizens remained doubtful about pasteurized milk because the heating process of pasteurization altered one of the elements they used to evaluate milk's quality: the cream line.",
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        "The layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized."
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          "word": "creamline"
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