2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22-197b. Last sale date required on containers.

      Sec. 22-197b. Last sale date required on containers. (a) In addition to the requirements of section 22-197, each container of milk or cream, yogurt, cream cheese, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, eggnog or sour cream sold or offered for retail sale to consumers, on and after January 1, 1982, shall be clearly marked with the last date on which such item may be sold or offered for sale. If such milk or cream was pasteurized at a temperature of two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit or less, the last sale date shall not exceed twelve days from the day on which such milk or cream was pasteurized except as provided in subsection (b) of this section.

      (b) The Milk Regulation Board shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 establishing a uniform method of displaying such date on such containers and a procedure which the Commissioner of Agriculture shall follow for approval of a last sale date for milk or cream in excess of twelve days for milk or cream pasteurized at a temperature of two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit or less. The regulations shall include but not be limited to procedures for verification of an extended last sale date and review of the appropriateness of such date. The commissioner may authorize an extended last sale date for milk or cream upon request of a milk processor.

      (P.A. 73-269, S. 1, 3; P.A. 81-161, S. 1, 2; P.A. 82-102, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-19, S. 1; P.A. 91-312, S. 30; P.A. 98-12, S. 20, 22; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 81-161 amended Subsec. (a) by adding cream, yogurt, cream cheese, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese and sour cream to products requiring container dating, changed "January 1, 1974" to "January 1, 1982" and specified that last sale date shall not exceed ten days from pasteurization date if milk or cream pasteurized at less than two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit and amended Subsec. (b) to require that regulations be in accordance with chapter 54 and to empower board to change last sale date; P.A. 82-102 amended Subsec. (a) to extent the last sale date from ten to twelve days and amended Subsec. (b) to authorize the milk regulation board to establish a procedure whereby the commissioner could extend the last sale date beyond twelve days for an individual milk processor; P.A. 84-19 amended Subsec. (b) by increasing the pasteurization temperature from two hundred degrees Fahrenheit to two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit; P.A. 91-312 amended Subsec. (a) to require each container of eggnog to be marked with the last sale date; P.A. 98-12 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 22-135, effective July 1, 1998; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Agriculture with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.

      See chapter 54 re uniform administrative procedure.