From The Tenth Amendment Centre blog:
BOSTON, Mass. (March 15, 2016) – An agriculture bill that would expand raw milk sales in the state passed an important joint committee last week. Passage of the bill into law would facilitate the process of nullifying the federal prohibition scheme in practice.
The joint committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture created Senate Bill 2171 (S.2171) to incorporate several measures relating to agriculture. The legislation would allow people in Massachusetts to enter into agreements to share milk-producing animals and drink raw milk. Another provision in the bill would also allow farms to deliver raw milk to consumers through contractual arrangements.
“Licensed raw milk farmers shall be allowed to deliver raw milk directly to the consumer, off-site from the farm, provided that the raw milk farmer has a direct, contractual relationship with the consumer. The raw milk farmer may contract with a third party for delivery provided that the raw milk farmer shall maintain the contractual relationship with the consumer. The raw milk farmer may deliver raw milk through a community supported agriculture (CSA) delivery system provided that the raw milk farmer shall maintain a contractual relationship with the consumer. Delivery may be made directly to the consumer’s residence or to a pre-established receiving site; said sites shall not be in a retail setting with the exception of CSA delivery. In such instances, raw milk shall be kept separated from retail items for sale and will not be accessible to the general public.”
Under the proposed “herdsharing” provisions, people in Massachusetts could enter into shared animal ownership agreement to consume raw milk in which he or she acquires a percentage ownership interest in a milk-producing animal subject to state regulations.
Under current law, raw milk sales are only allowed on the farm. While limited, these measures in S.2171 would expand the sale and consumption of unpasteurized milk in the state.
The legislation was reported favorably out of the joint committee last Thursday and now moves on to the Senate Ways and Means Committee for further consideration.
Federal Prohibition
FDA officials insist that unpasteurized milk poses a health risk because of its susceptibility to contamination from cow manure, a source of E. coli.
“It is the FDA’s position that raw milk should never be consumed,” agency spokeswoman Tamara N. Ward said in November 2011.
The FDA’s position represents more than a matter of opinion. In 1987, the feds implemented 21 CFR 1240.61(a), providing that, “no person shall cause to be delivered into interstate commerce or shall sell, otherwise distribute, or hold for sale or other distribution after shipment in interstate commerce any milk or milk product in final package form for direct human consumption unless the product has been pasteurized.”
Not only do the Feds ban the transportation of raw milk across state lines, they also claim the authority to ban unpasteurized milk within the borders of a state….”
The Bovine 
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Retail sale of raw milk will still be prohibited.
Sales are currently allowed from farm stands and that will continue.
Other limits though:
– There will be a limit of a combined total of 12 lactating cows and/or goats.
– “Redistribution” to others who don’t own shares is prohibited. In other words, giving some to your in-laws who live down the road is verbotten.
– State testing standards mandate a maximum of <10 coliforms and <20,000 SPC. See http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/agr/dairy/docs/policy-statement-imminent-health-hazzard-raw-milk-8-16-11.pdf