Indiana Administrative Code › Title 345 - INDIANA STATE BOARD OF ANIMAL HEALTH › Article 8 - DAIRY PRODUCTS › Rule 2 - Production, Handling, Processing, Packaging, and Distribution of Milk and Milk Products › Section 2-4 - Bulk milk collection; pickup tankers; samples

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 15-17-3-21; IC 15-18-1-14
Affected: IC 15-18-1-12
Sec. 4.
(a) Every
				bulk milk pickup tanker used to collect raw milk on a bulk milk route shall be
				of sanitary design and construction. The owner of a tank truck shall be
				responsible for maintaining it and its milk contact equipment in good repair.
				The bulk milk pickup tanker owner is responsible for cleaning and sanitizing
				the truck and equipment regularly in a manner and at a location approved by the
				board. A cleaning and sanitizing tag approved by the board shall be completed
				and affixed in the rear compartment of the bulk milk pickup tanker each day
				after cleaning and sanitizing. The bulk milk pickup tanker and its milk contact
				equipment shall be protected from contamination after being cleaned and
				sanitized.
(b) Milk in a bulk milk
				pickup tanker shall be maintained at a temperature of forty-five (45) degrees
				Fahrenheit or less from the time of collection until delivered to a milk plant,
				receiving station, or transfer station. If the milk being delivered is
				manufacturing grade raw milk, the raw milk shall be maintained at a temperature
				of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit or less from the time of collection until
				delivered to a manufacturing grade milk plant, receiving station, or transfer
				station.
(c) Tank trucks used to
				transport milk shall not be used to transport other products unless they have
				been thoroughly washed and sanitized after having been used to transport such
				other products. Only products fit for human consumption are authorized to be
				stored or transported in tank trucks used to transport milk or milk
				products.
(d) The name and address
				of the owner of a bulk milk pickup tanker shall be legibly marked on both sides
				or on the rear of the vehicle. The name of the owner shall be in letters not
				less than three (3) inches in height provided that markings in use before March
				1, 1998, may be the same height as the address, and the address shall be in
				letters not less than one and one-half (1 1/2) inches in height.
(e) Every bulk milk pickup tanker used to
				collect raw milk on a bulk milk route shall be equipped with the following:
(1) A sample dipper or other sampling device
				of sanitary construction approved by the board.
(2) Sampling devices protected from
				contamination.
(3) A sample
				carrying case constructed of such material and in such a way as to maintain
				producer raw milk samples at a temperature of thirty-two (32) to forty (40)
				degrees Fahrenheit from the time such samples are collected until they are
				delivered to the milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station.
(4) A sample rack approved by the board and
				of sufficient size to hold at least one (1) sample of raw milk in an upright
				position from each bulk milk tank of each milk producer represented on the load
				of raw milk being transported to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer
				station, plus one (1) sample to be used for temperature
				determination.