Dairy plant licence

Every dairy product sold in BC — milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream — must be pasteurised and made in a licensed dairy plant. The exceptions: raw-milk cheese that meets the federal ageing rules; a café or restaurant making dairy products from a licensed plant’s milk ingredients for immediate eating; and a food premisesFood premisesIn BC law, any place where food for the public is sold, prepared, packaged, stored, served or transported — a restaurant, a food truck, a bakery, a warehouse. The Food Premises Regulation sets the rules for all of them, with a few exceptions.All terms in the glossary that only freezes a licensed plant’s prepared mix, such as soft-serve.