HELENA – A milk wholesaler and distributor has sued the state over the Board of Livestock’s decision to keep a rule forbidding milk to be sold more than 12 days after it has been pasteurized.
Core-Mark International Inc., based in San Francisco with an office in Spokane, on Friday asked the state District Court in Helena to strike down the 12-day “sell-by” rule as invalid. It asked the court to order the department to let milk processors instead set appropriate “code dates” for their milk based on their testing.
The company is a wholesaler and distributor of milk and other products for convenience stores and independent grocery stores in Montana and elsewhere.
It challenged the Board of Livestock’s unanimous decision May 30 to retain the state’s 12-day “sell-by” rule.
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