Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 56705

If a person licensed under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 55401) or Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 56101) fails to pay a farm products creditor for any farm product which is received by the licensee, the director shall ascertain the names and addresses of all farm products creditors together with the amounts which are due and owing to them and each of them by the licensee and shall request all of those farm products creditors to file a verified statement of their respective claims with the director. The request shall be addressed to each creditor at his or her last known address. If by reason of the absence of records, or other circumstances which make it impossible or unreasonable for the director to ascertain the names and addresses of all of the farm products creditors, the director, after exerting due diligence and making reasonable inquiry to secure the information from all reasonable and available sources, may make demand upon the products fund on the basis of information then in his or her possession, and thereafter is not liable or responsible for claims or the handling of claims which may subsequently appear or be discovered.