TITLE 37

FOOD, DRUGS, AND OIL

CHAPTER 3

DAIRIES AND DAIRY PRODUCTS

37-310.  Standards for quality control of milk samples. The following standards are hereby adopted relating to quality control of milk samples taken from tanks:

(1)  As often as is deemed necessary, the department of agriculture may take samples for analysis from each farm tank or each transportation tank.

(2)  All milk samples taken from farm tanks or transportation tanks shall be taken in a sanitary manner in accordance with standard methods. Samples for bacteriological analysis shall be properly iced and transported in accordance with standard methods, thirty-two (32) to forty (40) degrees Fahrenheit.

(3)  The department of agriculture shall have access to all records maintained by the receiving plant relating to butterfat, temperature and bacteriological sampling and any other samples of bulk farm tank milk.

(4)  Milk samples for analysis shall be available on the farm tank pickup truck at all times during the collection period and delivery to the plant, as required by the department of agriculture.

History:

[37-310, added 2014, ch. 275, sec. 13, p. 690.]