USDA Amends Fluid Milk Promotion Order
US - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a final rule that amends the Fluid Milk Promotion Order.
29 May 2008
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The amendment reduces the burden of late-fee charges applied to processors who underreport the amount of assessments they owe to the board due to unintentional errors and miscalculations. Specifically, the amendment will only apply to processors who have not made more than two reporting errors in the prior 12-month period.
The board was established by the Fluid Milk Promotion Act of 1990 to develop and administer a coordinated program of advertising and promotion to increase the demand for fluid milk products. The National Fluid Milk Program is financed by a mandatory 20-cent per hundredweight assessment on all fluid milk processed and marketed commercially in consumer-type packages in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia.
Processors who commercially process and market 3 million pounds or less per month, excluding those fluid milk products delivered to the residence of a consumer, are exempt from assessments. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) monitors the operations of the Board.
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