Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE › Part VII - Dairy Products Regulations › Chapter 21 - Dairy Products Condensing, Dairy Products Concentrating, Dairy Products Drying or Dry Dairy Products Blending Plants › Subchapter A - Supplemental Requirements for Dairy Plants that Condense, Concentrate, Dry or Blend Dry Dairy Products › Section VII-2107 - Cleaning and Sanitizing of Containers and Equipment

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The product contact surfaces of all
				  multi-use containers and equipment used in the processing, drying, storing,
				  handling and transporting of milk, milk products, dairy products, whey, whey
				  products, condensed or dry milk and buttermilk shall be properly cleaned and
				  sanitized before each use. Each dairy plant that condenses, concentrates, dries
				  or blends dry dairy products shall develop and implement effective cleaning and
				  sanitizing programs based upon the recommendations of the manufacturer of the
				  equipment and the recommendations contained in the PMO, Appendix F. Each dairy
				  plant handling dry or blended dry dairy products shall be equipped with a heavy
				  duty industrial type vacuum cleaner, so designed as not to recontaminate the
				  atmosphere for cleaning areas in which powder accumulates.
B. Non-product contact surfaces of utensils
				  and equipment shall be kept clean.
C. Effective cleaning and sanitizing regimen
				  instructions, including solution mixing directions, solution strength
				  requirements, testing and recording procedures, temperature requirements,
				  circulation times and all other pertinent information necessary to properly
				  clean and sanitize equipment, shall be posted adjacent to all equipment used in
				  cleaning and sanitizing dairy equipment.
D. The posted procedures and instructions
				  shall be followed in the cleaning and sanitization of dairy
				  equipment.
E. Storage tanks shall
				  be cleaned and sanitized when emptied and shall be emptied at least every 72
				  hours provided, that the state health officer may with the concurrence of FDA
				  authorize an interval greater than 72 hours, determined on a case by case
				  basis.
F. Drying equipment,
				  blending equipment, cloth-collector systems, packaging equipment and multi-use
				  dry dairy products and dry whey storage containers shall be cleaned at
				  intervals and by methods recommended by the manufacturer or the PMO, Appendix F
				  and approved by the state health officer. Such methods may include cleaning
				  without water by use of vacuum cleaners, brushes or scrapers; such equipment
				  and brushes shall be used exclusively for cleaning product contact surfaces.
				  After cleaning, such equipment is sanitized by a method approved by the state
				  health officer. Cloth collector systems and all dry product contact surfaces
				  downstream from the dryer shall be sanitized or purged at intervals and by
				  methods recommended by the manufacturer and approved by the state health
				  officer. Sanitary single service outer clothing and shoe covers shall be
				  provided for personnel and worn exclusively when it is necessary to enter the
				  interior of the dryer to perform the cleaning operation.
G. Storage bins or totes used to transport
				  dry products shall be dry cleaned after each usage and wet-cleaned and
				  sanitized at regular intervals.
H.
				  Pipelines and equipment designed for mechanical cleaning shall meet the
				  following requirements:
1. operating
				  instructions shall be posted near the cleaning equipment and shall be
				  followed;
2. a temperature
				  recording device, complying with the requirements contained in the
PMO
or a recording device which has been approved by the FDA
				  and found to provide sufficient information to adequately evaluate the cleaning
				  and sanitizing regimen and which is approved by the state health officer, shall
				  be installed in the return solution line or other appropriate area to record
				  the temperature and time during which the line or equipment is exposed to
				  cleaning and sanitizing solutions;
3. pipelines and equipment designed for
				  automated mechanical cleaning of evaporators shall have a pH recording device
				  in the return lines to record the pH and time which the line or equipment is
				  exposed during cleaning and sanitizing operations. These charts shall be
				  identified, dated and initialed by the operator and maintained for three
				  months;
4. temperature and pH
				  recording charts shall be signed, dated and retained for three
				  months;
5. during each inspection,
				  the state health officer shall examine and initial a representative sample of
				  each type of temperature recording charts to verify the time of exposure to
				  solutions and their temperatures.