PURPOSE: This rule provides for the adoption of the Procedures Governing the Cooperative State-Public Health Service/Food and Drug Administration Program of the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, 2023 Revision of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, and the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, which is the recommended procedures for adoption by state and local governments for sound and uniform milk sanitation programs.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The secretary of state has determined that publication of the entire text of the material that is incorporated by reference as a portion of this rule would be unduly cumbersome or expensive. This material as incorporated by reference in this rule shall be maintained by the agency at its headquarters and shall be made available to the public for inspection and copying at no more than the actual cost of reproduction. This note applies only to the reference material. The entire text of the rule is printed here.

1. (1) The Procedures Governing the Cooperative State-Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration Program of the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, 2023 Revision of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, and the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments are the procedures for establishing milk sanitation standards, rating procedures, sampling procedures, laboratory procedures, laboratory evaluation, and sample collector procedures. The document further contains the Constitution of the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS), the Bylaws of the NCIMS, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States Food and Drug Administration and NCIMS, and related documents. This procedures document governs the NCIMS and contains the information necessary to maintain a national program that is both uniform and acceptable to the states, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, and the dairy industry. The Procedures Governing the Cooperative State-Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration Program of the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, 2023 Revision, is hereby incorporated by reference as published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Division of Plant and Dairy Food (HFS- 316), 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740-3835. This rule does not incorporate any subsequent amendments or additions to the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO).

AUTHORITY: section 196.939, RSMo 2016.* This rule originally filed as 2 CSR 80-2.181. Original rule filed July 23, 2014, effective Jan. 30, 2015. Amended: Filed April 22, 2016, effective Oct. 30, 2016. Moved and amended: Filed April 30, 2018, effective Nov. 30, 2018. Amended: Filed Aug. 7, 2020, effective Feb. 28, 2021. Amended: Filed Sept. 27, 2024, effective April 30, 2025.

*Original authority: 196.939, RSMo 1972, amended 1993, 1994, 1995.