Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE › Part VII - Dairy Products Regulations › Chapter 3 - Sampling, Examination, Inspections, Grading, Enforcement Procedures and Standards of Dairy Products including Frozen Desserts › Subchapter A - Sampling and Examination of Dairy Products including Frozen Desserts › Section VII-309 - Laboratory Examination of Dairy Products including Frozen Desserts and Tests for Environmental Pathogens

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The following laboratory examinations
				  shall be performed on milk and dairy products, including frozen desserts.
1. Standard plate counts, drug residue tests,
				  somatic cell counts and cooling temperature checks shall be performed on raw
				  milk for pasteurization, ultra-pasteurization and aseptic processing from each
				  producer's milk supply domiciled in the state at a frequency required in §307.
				  D on samples collected by the state health officer or under the direction of
				  the state health officer.
2.
				  Standard plate counts, drug residue tests and cooling temperature checks shall
				  be performed on commingled raw milk for pasteurization, ultra-pasteurization
				  and aseptic processing from the supply of each dairy plant domiciled in
				  Louisiana at a frequency required in §305. E on samples collected by the state
				  health officer.
3. Sediment tests,
				  tests for aflatoxins, beta lactams, tetracyclines, sulfonamides, tests for
				  added water and other tests determined to be necessary by the state health
				  officer shall be performed on raw milk samples collected from each farm bulk
				  milk tank truck load of raw milk that unloaded at each dairy plant, transfer
				  station and receiving station on two consecutive days during each consecutive
				  six-month period.
4. All raw milk
				  samples collected from each farm bulk milk tank represented on each load of raw
				  milk that was found to have a USDA sediment standard that exceed number three
				  or was found to be positive for any of the other tests listed in §309. A.3 above shall be tested using the same test from which the sediment result that
				  exceed three or the positive result on the other tests were obtained on the
				  sample from the load of raw milk.
5. Standard plate counts, drug residue tests
				  and temperature checks, which are determinated to be necessary by the state
				  health officer, shall be performed on each type of heat treated dairy product
				  processed by each dairy plant domiciled in the state at a frequency required in
				  §307. F on samples collected by the state health officer.
6. Standard plate counts, coliform counts,
				  drug residue tests, phosphatase tests and cooling temperature checks, which are
				  determined to be necessary by the state health officer shall be performed on
				  each type of dairy product, including frozen desserts, processed by each dairy
				  plant domiciled in the state at a frequency required in §307. G on samples
				  collected by the state health officer or under the direction of the state
				  health officer,
7. Standard plate
				  counts, drug residue tests, coliform counts and cooling temperature checks
				  shall be performed on condensed and concentrated dairy products produced by
				  each dairy plant domiciled in the state at a frequency required in §307. G on
				  samples collected by the state health officer or under the direction of the
				  state health officer,
8. Standard
				  plate counts and coliform counts shall be performed on each type of dry dairy
				  product processed or blended by each dairy product drying or dairy product
				  blending plant domiciled in the state at a frequency required in §307. G on
				  samples collected by the state health officer or under the direction of the
				  state health officer,
9. Drug
				  residue tests determined to be appropriate by the state health officer shall be
				  performed on each type of aseptically processed dairy product produced by each
				  dairy plant domiciled in the state at a frequency required in §307. G on
				  samples collected by the state health officer or under the direction of the
				  state health officer.
10. Tests for
				  contamination of finished products with pesticides, herbicides, PCB's, etc.,
				  shall be performed at intervals determined by the state health officer, on all
				  finished products being sold or produced in Louisiana.