PA - update to raw milk regulations rejected

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An excerpt from PASA:

Yesterday was one of the most extraordinary days in the history of the Local

Food Movement here in Pennsylvania or anywhere. In applying a highly technical

legal maneuver they referred to openly as " common sense, " the Pennsylvania

Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) voted to reject the latest

" final " draft of Milk Sanitation regulations, sending them back to the

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) with a request that the regulations

be divided between those applied to commercial milk supplies and those governing

the production and sale of raw milk for human consumption. Resubmission of at

least the first section may occur later this fall, before the current

legislature retires. The IRRC also took the bold step of suggesting that PDA

" please sit down with these people, " who are affected by the raw milk

regulations, to see what their concerns happen to be.