New Brunswick's Public Health Act bars any person from selling, delivering or distributing milk that was not pasteurised in a licensed dairy plant.
New Brunswick states its prohibition more directly than most provinces, placing it in public health legislation rather than leaving it to be inferred from dairy licensing rules.
Section 17(1) of the Public Health Act (S.N.B. 1998, c. P-22.4) provides that no person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver or distribute milk or cream that has not been pasteurized or sterilized in a dairy plant licensed by the Minister. The wording reaches delivery and distribution, not merely sale, which forecloses arrangements that attempt to characterize a transfer as something other than a sale, including herdshare and cow-share structures.
The Natural Products Act (S.N.B. 1999, c. N-1.2) adds a licensing layer, providing at section 45(1) that no person shall engage in the producing, processing or marketing of milk or any dairy product without a valid licence, with milk designated as a regulated product under the Milk Plan and Levies Regulation (N.B. Reg. 2002-85).
There is no legal source of raw drinking milk in New Brunswick. Aged raw milk cheese is legal under the federal 60 day rule. For the national picture, see the Canada raw milk laws overview.
Official government documents and legal resources for New Brunswick
New Brunswick's public health statute. Section 17(1) prohibits selling, offering for sale, delivering or distributing milk or cream that has not been pasteurized or sterilized in a dairy plant licensed by the Minister.
View Official Resource →The federal provision prohibiting the sale of unpasteurized milk nationwide since 1991. Subsection (2) exempts cheese, and food sold for further processing in order to pasteurize it.
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