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-307 - The Official Sampling of Dairy Plant Environments and Dairy Products Including Frozen Desserts

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Each
				  bulk milk tank truck operator/sampler shall collect a representative sample of
				  raw milk from each farm bulk tank prior to transferring the milk from the farm
				  bulk tank to a milk tank truck each time raw milk is removed from the farm bulk
				  tank. All samples shall be collected as directed by the state health officer
				  and at least one set of samples collected from each farm bulk tank of each
				  dairy farm supply represented in the load shall accompany the load of milk to
				  the dairy plant, receiving station or transfer station at which it is
				  unloaded.
B. Each dairy plant
				  receiver/sampler shall collect a representative sample of raw milk from each
				  tanker of raw milk that unloads at the plant each day. The dairy plant
				  receiver/sampler shall obtain one set of the samples, collected by the bulk
				  milk tank truck operator sampler, from each farm bulk tank of raw milk
				  represented on the loads of raw milk from which the tanker samples were
				  obtained. The dairy plant receiver/sampler shall store all of the samples in a
				  manner consistent with the requirements of this Part and deliver them to the
				  state health officer when requested.
C. The state health officer may sample the
				  environments of each dairy plant using approved methodology for the sampling of
				  plant environments for contamination with pathogenic microorganisms of human
				  significance as often as he deems necessary. Controlling the environments of
				  dairy plants to prevent contamination with pathogenic microorganisms is of
				  utmost public health importance.
D.
				  During each consecutive six months, at least four samples of raw milk for
				  pasteurization, ultra-pasteurization and aseptic processing shall be collected
				  in at least four separate months, except when three months show a month in
				  which two of the sampling dates were separated by at least 20 days, and
				  delivered in accordance with the requirements of this section from each farm
				  bulk tank of each producer. These samples shall be obtained under the direction
				  of the state health officer or shall be collected from each producer by the
				  state health officer.
E. During
				  each consecutive six months, at least four samples of commingled raw milk for
				  pasteurization, ultra-pasteurization or aseptic processing, collected in at
				  least four separate months, except when three months show a month containing
				  two sampling dates separated by at least 20 days, shall be taken from each
				  dairy plant after receipt of the milk by the plant and prior to pasteurization,
				  ultra-pasteurization or aseptic processing by the state health
				  officer.
F. During each consecutive
				  six months, at least four samples of heat-treated milk and milk products, from
				  each plant offering such products for sale, shall be collected in at least four
				  separate months, except when three months show a month containing two sampling
				  dates separated by at least 20 days, by the state health officer.
G. During each consecutive six months, at
				  least four samples of each type of dairy product being processed by each dairy
				  plant domiciled within the state shall be collected by the state health
				  officer. Each fat level of product, each flavor of flavored products, and each
				  type of cultured product shall be sampled by the state health officer. The
				  state health officer shall attempt to collect these samples of product in each
				  size and type of container packaged by each plant.
H. During each consecutive 12-month period
				  the state health officer shall collect from each dairy plant domiciled in
				  Louisiana at least one sample of each dairy product to which vitamins have been
				  added.
I. If production of any
				  dairy product, for which a grading system is prescribed by this Part, is not on
				  a yearly basis at least five samples shall be taken within a continuous
				  production period.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with the provisions of
					 R.S.
					 40:4(A)(1)(a). Also see
					 R.S.
					 40:5(2)(3)(5)(7) (15)(17)
					 and
					 R.S.
					 40:922.