Legislative Background Brief for the Economic Affairs Interim Committee

July 11, 2014

What started as a subcommittee of the 2013-2014 Economic Affairs Interim Committee to look into Montana's 12-day "sell-by" milk rule evolved after one subcommittee meeting to a white paper overview of how Montana regulates milk sales now and how regulation occurred in the past. However, this white paper is not a study of the milk industry in Montana. Rather, the paper builds on a staff document provided to the subcommittee in March 2014--entitled "Review of Other States' Milk Policies and Other Background Information for Discussion of Montana's 12- Day Sell-By Rule"--and includes the following additional information: what Idaho and Wyoming require in terms of milk sell-by or use-by labeling. Neither has anything in statute requiring a sell-by or use-by date on Grade A milk, which means by default that any date on the packages is put there by the processor.some history on milk price controls, which were dropped from retail, wholesale, and jobber (distribution) sales in 1995.

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