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HOUSE BILL 610

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill allows the sale of cheese made from raw milk if such cheese is aged for 60 days and the sale of unpasteurized apple cider within the state. Such products shall be clearly labeled as unpasteurized.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

137:1 Sale of Dairy Products; Sale of Raw Milk Cheese Allowed. Amend RSA 184:30-a to read as follows:

184:30-a Pasteurization Required. No milk or milk products as defined in RSA 184:79 shall be sold, offered for sale or served unless pasteurized. This shall not serve to prohibit the direct sale of raw milk or cream from the producer, store or milk pasteurization plant to the final consumer, or milk or cream from a producer to stores, nor the serving of raw milk at bona fide boarding houses where the milk is produced on the premises, provided that in the dining room of such boarding houses a sign is prominently displayed stating that such raw milk is served therein, nor 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.

137:2 New Paragraph; Manufacture and Sale of Unpasteurized Cider. Amend RSA 434:40-b by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. That unpasteurized cider may be sold within the state if such cider is clearly labeled as unpasteurized.

137:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: June 29, 2001)

(Effective Date: August 28, 2001)