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, 2013 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.

1. (1) The Procedures Governing the Cooperative State-Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration Program of the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments, 2013 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
2. (MOU) between the United States Food and Drug Administration and NCIMS, and related documents. This Procedures is the governing document of 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, 2013 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.

AUTHORITY: section 196.939, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed July 23, 2014, effective Jan. 30, 2015. *Original authority: 196.939, RSMo 1972, amended 1993, 1994, 1995.