Bill would allow raw milk sales

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State News

February 27, 2020 - 10:02 AM

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate has approved a bill that would allow on-the-farm sales of raw milk so long as farmers have a label on their containers stating that the product is unpasteurized.

The vote Wednesday was 37-3 and sent the measure to the House.

Kansas has allowed the sale of raw milk for decades, but a 1967 law prohibited farmers from advertising its sale outside of their farms. A northwest Kansas dairy farm’s owners sued over the advertising ban in October.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt and the state Department of Agriculture agreed in settling the case not to enforce the ban. Schmidt admitted it was “plainly unconstitutional.”

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