PENNSYLVANIA, June 30 - (b) Best by date.--Pasteurized milk may not be sold or

offered for sale if the milk is sold or offered for sale after

the best by date designated on the cap or nonglass container.

§ 5746. Monitoring by milk plants and department.

(a) Sampling and testing.--

(1) If a milk plant labels milk with a sell by date or a

best by date that is no later than 17 days beginning after

midnight on the day on which the milk was pasteurized, the

milk plant shall, at intervals of no greater than 12 months

and for the highest selling volume milk type and each type

and volume of container of that highest selling volume milk

type bearing that label information, sample and test in

accordance with the methodology specified in subsection (b).

(2) If a milk plant labels milk with a sell by date or a

best by date that is greater than 17 days beginning after

midnight on the day on which the milk was pasteurized and

that has been approved by the department in accordance with

section 5744 (relating to sell by date or best by date of

greater than 17 days from pasteurization), the milk plant

shall, at intervals of no longer than six months and for the

highest selling volume milk type and each type and volume of

container of that highest selling volume milk type bearing

that label information, sample and test in accordance with

the methodology specified in subsection (b).

(3) The department shall periodically sample containers

of pasteurized milk in the possession of the milk plant. The

sampling may occur at any time before the pasteurized milk is

delivered to a retail food facility or the customer.

(b) Methodology.--

(1) The samples described in subsection (a)(1) and (2)

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