184:93 Rulemaking. –
I. The milk sanitation board shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A for the enforcement of this subdivision relative to:
(a) The environmental conditions surrounding the production of milk and milk products both within and without the state;
(b) The transportation of milk and milk products from the producer to the milk plant;
(c) The operations of pasteurizing plants and equipment and the condition of the raw milk or milk products submitted to the process of pasteurization;
(d) The handling of such milk or milk products;
(e) Prevention of contamination of milk and milk products while awaiting or being processed;
(f) The bottling, packaging and refrigeration of processed milk and milk products;
(g) The packaging or labeling of milk and milk products and the environmental surroundings in which milk and milk products shall be received, processed, packaged, stored and delivered to any milk plant;
(h) The environmental circumstances surrounding the delivery of milk and milk products from any milk plant to any store or other place of business for resale or to the ultimate consumer, including the transportation, cooling, refrigeration, storage and delivery;
(i) The cleanliness and freedom from illness or disease of all employees and persons coming in contact with cattle, conducting the milking thereof, engaged in handling the milk and milk products, transporting the same or processing the same, or coming in contact with any equipment, containers or packages with which milk or milk products themselves come in contact;
(j) Procedures, techniques, equipment to be used and methods of recordation of results of any analyses or determination with respect to milk or milk products or their components, including procedures to be followed in the collection, preservation and refrigeration of samples of the same collected for inspection;
(k) The establishment of bacterial standards for milk and other milk products;
(l) Requirements for the approval of milk laboratories;
(m) Establishing standard percentages of milk solids and milk fat required in milk;
(n) Any other matter in this subdivision concerning the manner in which an act shall be done, the approval of equipment or facilities, or the components of any form of milk or milk products to which reference is made in this subdivision.
II, III. [Repealed.]
Source. 1963, 289:1. 1989, 327:3, 5, eff. Aug. 1, 1989.