New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
Subchapter 10 - DESIGNATED FLUID MILK PRODUCTS
Section 8:21-10.8 - Standards for milk and fluid milk products
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 8:21-10.8
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Section 7. "Standards for Milk and Milk Products" of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance is adopted with the following additional requirements:
1. The following standards for pasteurized
mixes for frozen desserts are added to Table 1. "Chemical, Bacteriological and
Temperature Standards" of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance.
i. Temperature--Same as established in (a)
above;
ii. Bacterial limits (not
applicable to cultured products)--50,000 bacteria per gram;
iii. Coliform limits--Not exceeding 10 per
gram; and
iv. Phosphatase--Less
than 350 milliunits/liter for fluid products and less than 500 for other milk
products by the Fluorometer or Charm ALP or equivalent.
2. The following requirements are added to
Item 1r. Abnormal Milk:
i. A strip cup shall
be used to examine the first stream of milk from each teat of each milking
animal at each milking for the purpose of detecting abnormalities and all such
fore-milk shall be discarded. When any abnormal fore-milk is detected from any
quarter of the udder, the producer shall immediately exclude all the milk from
such animal from the supply and such milk shall not be sold, offered for sale
or delivered for consumption as milk.
ii. Whenever a herd milk sample exceeds any
of the following screening test results, a confirmatory count, using a Direct
Microscopic, Electronic, Membrane Filter DNA or Optical Somatic Cell counting
technique, shall be made on that sample and the results of this count shall be
the official result. Pyronine Y-methyl green stain shall be used in the
confirmatory test for direct microscopic somatic cell counts in goat's milk.
(1) California mastitis test--1 applicable to
goat's milk only;
(2) Wisconsin
mastitis test--18 millimeters applicable to goat's milk only.
iii. Whenever the confirmatory
count indicates the presence of greater than 750,000 somatic cells per
milliliter on cow's milk or 1,000,000 somatic cells per milliliter on goat's
milk, the following procedure shall be followed:
(1) A notice shall be given to the producer
warning him of the excessive somatic cell count. The notice should also list
the more likely causes of high somatic cell count.
(2) Whenever two of the last four consecutive
somatic cell counts exceed 750,000 cells per milliliter on cow's milk or
1,000,000 cells per milliliter on goat's milk, written notice thereof shall be
sent to the person concerned. This notice shall be in effect so long as two of
the last four consecutive samples exceed 750,000 cells per milliliter on cow's
milk or 1,000,000 somatic cells per milliliter on goat's milk. In addition to
the written notice, an inspection should be made by certified personnel. This
inspection should be made at milking time to be the most effective.
(3) An additional milk sample shall be taken
within 21 days of the written notice and inspection required above, but not
before the lapse of three days. If three of the last five samples within any
consecutive six months indicate a confirmatory count greater than 750,000 cells
per milliliter on cow's milk or 1,000,000 somatic cells per ml. on goat's milk,
the receipt of milk from the producer shall be discontinued for a period of at
least two days or until such time as additional samples show correction of the
condition.
3.
Item 6p. "Toilet-Sewage Disposal Facilities" of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance
is replaced with the following requirement:
i.
Every milk plant shall be provided with toilet facilities which comply with the
requirements of the health authority and the Uniform Construction Code,
N.J.A.C. 5:23.
4. The
following requirements are added to Item 10p. "Sanitary Piping" of the
Pasteurized Milk Ordinance:
i. All piping
shall be identified as to whether it is carrying raw or pasteurized milk or
milk products. Identification of all piping shall be in a manner acceptable to
the Department. Recommended colors are: red--raw milk, blue--pasteurized milk,
green--clean-in-place system and yellow--nonpotable water system.
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