THE NATIONAL MILK SANITATION BILL AND ITS PROBABLE EFFECT ON NORTHEASTERN MILK MARKETS1

For several years bills known as the National Milk Sanitation Act have been presented to congressional committees in the Federal Congress. The older obsolete bills were opposed by most state and local sanitary milk regulatory agencies and by the U. S. Public Health Service. There was need for thorough revision of the principles underlying the bills or for discarding them completely. The bills introduced to committees in February 1959 incorporate new methods of procedure and objectives and the Johnson Bill H.R. 50, January 3, 1961 is one of several similar bills on which hearings were held this past summer. The bills have changed but the same objections continue to be used against them. One should consider the basis of this bill, the bill itself, and the probable disadvantages and advantages of the passage of this legislation.