Provincial
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 premises that only freezes a licensed plant’s prepared mix, such as soft-serve.
- Who issues it
- BC Centre for Disease Control (Milk Industry Act)
The rules behind this page
- Milk Industry Act(ss. 6 and 13)Province of British Columbia (BC Laws) · Current to September 22, 2026
- Dairy Plant Exception Regulation, B.C. Reg. 224/2019(ss. 2–3)Province of British Columbia (BC Laws) · Current to September 22, 2026
- Food and Drug Regulations, C.R.C., c. 870(B.08.044)Government of Canada (Justice Laws) · Current to 2026-09-03 (last amended 2026-06-17)