As part of a larger effort sponsored by the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NE-DBIC) and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM), The Good People Research Company was contracted to study the marketing and branding of dairy producers and consumers in the northeast to learn how best to assist small dairy producers in their efforts to brand their companies successfully.

In this Toolkit, we will walk you through this process of exploring and identifying the story you will want to tell in the marketplace, and suggestions for how to tell that story, as well as how to get your products in front of consumers and popularize them most effectively.

For use beginning 6/1/2021
This directive instructs inspection program personnel (IPP) when to complete and submit VT Form MI-89, Notice of Receipt of Adulterated or Misbranded Product.
KEY POINTS
• Instructs IPP on the completion and distribution of VT Form MI-89
• Updates instructions consistent with the current Public Health Information System (PHIS) inspection methodology

This directive provides comprehensive direction to Food Safety Specialists (FSSs) on how they are to protect the public health by properly verifying an establishment’s compliance with the pathogen reduction, sanitation, and HACCP regulations. This directive provides documentation procedures under the Public Health Information System (PHIS).
The state does not operate at Import Inspection Establishments

This notice provides instructions to Public Health Veterinarians (PHVs) and inspection program personnel (IPP) about assessing and informing official livestock establishments whether their written systematic approach for humane handling and slaughter meets the criteria for being a robust plan or not.