Cabinet Regulation No. 73 of 2019 on Requirements for the Handling of Small Quantities of Raw Cow and Goat Milk

The Regulation prescribes the hygiene and mandatory harmlessness requirements for the collection, pre-treatment, storage, transportation, and direct supply of small quantities of raw cow and goat milk to a final consumer or retail establishment which directly supplies a final consumer in the territory of Latvia, and also the procedures for the issuing, suspending, and restoring a permit for the sale of the milk. A milk producer shall collect the milk from the cows and goats it owns and sell it directly to a final consumer or the retail trade at the place of production or within a radius of 300 kilometres from the place of production. The Regulation further provides for procedures for the issuing, suspending, and restoring of a permit for the sale of the milk; requirements for animal health and holding; requirements for the collection, pre-treatment, storage, and transportation of the milk; milk harmlessness requirements and sampling of the milk; and requirements for the sale of the milk.