HB 1216 – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
08mar06… 1223h
2006 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 1216
AN ACT relative to the sale of unpasteurized milk.
SPONSORS: Rep. Dalrymple, Rock 4
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill allows the sale of unpasteurized milk if such milk and milk products are clearly labeled as unpasteurized.
This bill is a request of the department of health and human services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08mar06… 1223h
06-2616
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to the sale of unpasteurized milk.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Pasteurization. RSA 184:30-a is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
184:30-a Pasteurization of Milk and Milk Products Not Required.
I. Unpasteurized milk and milk products may be sold, offered for sale, and served only if such milk and products are clearly labeled as unpasteurized and such label is clearly displayed. The commissioner may adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the manufacture, labeling, and sale of milk and milk products in New Hampshire.
II. The provision of paragraph I shall not prohibit the sale, within the state, of cheese made from raw milk when such cheese has been aged a minimum of 60 days at a temperature above 35 degrees fahrenheit, and is clearly labeled as unpasteurized.
2 Original Containers. Amend RSA 184:30-b to read as follows:
184:30-b Original Containers. It shall be unlawful for any fixed and mobile restaurant; coffee shop; cafeteria; short-order cafe; luncheonette; grille; soda fountain; tearoom; cocktail lounge; roadside stand; hospital and other institution; industrial feeding establishment; school; private organization routinely serving the public; catering kitchen; commissary or similar places in which food is prepared for sale or for service on the premises or elsewhere, or any eating or drinking establishment where food is served to or provided for the public with or without charge to sell or serve milk or fluid milk products unless [pasteurized and] in the original individual containers and clearly marked as pasteurized or unpasteurized in which they were packaged at the milk plant.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.