Pennsylvania Code › Title 7 - AGRICULTURE › Part III - Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services › Subpart B - Liquid Foods › Chapter 59a - MILK SANITATION › Subchapter B - PERMIT REQUIREMENTS › Section 59a.18 - Sampling and examination

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Sampling and testing costs.
Sampling and testing required
					 under this section shall be at the expense of the permitholder or permit
					 applicant, and shall be conducted by a Pennsylvania-approved dairy laboratory,
					 an out-of-State dairy laboratory that is listed with the NCIMS or that operates
					 in accordance with the current
Evaluation of Milk Laboratories,
					 Recommendations of the United States Public Health Service/Food and Drug
					 Administration
and current FDA 2400 Laboratory Series forms, or the
					 Department.
(b)
Certified
					 milk plants, receiving stations and transfer stations; milk plants and transfer
					 stations that receive Grade "A" milk.
A milk plant, receiving station
					 or transfer station shall comply with Appendix N of the Grade "A" PMO,
					 regarding drug residue testing and farm surveillance, if it is certified under
					 the NCIMS Interstate Milk Shippers Program, or if it receives Grade "A"
					 milk.
(c)
Noncertified milk
					 plants and transfer stations.
Milk plants that are not certified under
					 the NCIMS Interstate Milk Shippers Program, and which do not receive bulk
					 shipments of Grade "A" milk, shall obtain a representative sample of commingled
					 milk for pasteurization each processing day. The sample shall be collected by a
					 certified industry plant sampler and analyzed for
Beta lactam
drug residues in a laboratory as described in subsection (a). If a milk plant
					 is not certified under the NCIMS Interstate Milk Shippers Program, does not
					 receive bulk shipments of Grade "A" milk and produces that milk in accordance
					 with a written quality control program addressing the use of animal drugs at
					 that dairy operation, that milk plant may request a variance from the testing
					 requirements in this subsection. The request shall be in writing and include a
					 copy of the written quality control program. The Department may, on the basis
					 of the request, issue a variance with respect to the requirements in this
					 subsection. A variance issued under this subsection will be valid for no more
					 than 1 year and may be renewed for additional periods of up to 1 year following
					 the Department's review of the quality control program and any onsite
					 inspections the Department deems necessary to determine whether a successor
					 variance should be issued.
(d)
Drug residue testing.
Drug residue screening test records
					 shall be maintained on file by the permitholder for at least 2 years.
(e)
Reference to applicable
					 provisions of the Grade "A" PMO.
The provisions of the Grade "A" PMO,
					 in particular section 6 and Appendix N, regarding examination of milk and milk
					 products and drug residue testing and farm surveillance, apply to this section
					 to the extent described in §
											59a.11 (relating to adoption of
					 Grade "A" PMO).
(f)
Interpretation of Grade "A" PMO.
When milk is excluded from
					 market under a provision of the Grade "A" PMO on the basis of an accumulation
					 of violative test results and the accelerated sampling testing called for under
					 the Grade "A" PMO results in the provisional or final return of milk to market,
					 the Department will consider tests preceding the date of return to market in
					 determining future accumulations of violative test results.