Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1)
Each milk hauler must have a license issued by the department.
(a) A candidate or substitute milk hauler
shall get a license within ten days from the date they begin hauling
operations.
(b) The 10-day period
is for training and observation to provide the department and company officials
with an opportunity to check the hauler's pickup technique and observe the
degree to which the hauler is following required pickup practices.
(c) Training may take the form of instruction
in pickup technique or may include a required period of observation
apprenticeship in which the candidate accompanies a licensee in the performance
of the licensee's duties.
(d) A
person whose milk hauling responsibility is limited to transporting properly
collected and packaged milk samples to a laboratory is not required to get or
have a milk hauler license.
(e) An
examination may be administered at the conclusion of the 10- day period and
candidates failing the test will be denied licenses until the deficiencies are
corrected.
(f) Drivers shall be
qualified to efficiently carry out the procedures necessary for the sanitary
transfer of milk from the farm tank to the dairy plant.
(g) Each milk hauler shall be subject to
examination as the department may prescribe by rule to receive and keep a
license.
(h) The fee for the
license shall be established in accordance with Section
4-2-103
and renewed annually.
(2) The milk line shall be passed through a
special port opening through the milkhouse wall with care to prevent contact
with the ground. The port opening shall be closed when not in use.
(3) It shall be the responsibility of the
milk hauler to assure themselves that, if the processor washes and sanitizes
the truck, the operation has been adequately performed, and that before use,
the truck tank has been properly sanitized with an approved sanitizer. If it is
the milk hauler's responsibility to sanitize the truck tank, the milk hauler
shall do so with a solution of proper strength.
(4) The milk hauler shall wash their hands
immediately before taking a measurement, sample, or both of the milk.
(5) The milk shall be observed and checked
for abnormalities or adulterations, and any abnormal or adulterated milk shall
be rejected.
(6) Drivers shall
maintain a clean, neat, personal appearance and take measurements and collect
milk samples for analysis in a sanitary manner using properly identified clean
containers. Each sampling procedure shall follow "the Standard Methods for the
Examination of Dairy Products."
(7)
Procedures for picking up bulk milk.
(a) Take
and record the tank reading.
(i) If the tank
is agitating when the hauler arrives, let it continue for five minutes before
taking the butterfat sample.
(ii)
Then turn off the agitator and wait until the milk is quiescent before taking
measurement.
(iii) Note:
Cleanliness and dryness are essential to accurate readings.
(iv) The rod shall be warm enough so that
moisture from the atmosphere will not condense on the rod after it has been
dried or dusted, before inserting it into a tank to make a reading of the
liquid level.
(b) Turn
on the agitator and agitate at least five minutes before taking a
sample.
(c) While the tank is
agitating, record temperature and time and hook up the hose and electricity to
the truck.
(d) While the agitator
is running, take samples from three positions in the tank center and at both
ends. Collect quality samples from three positions in the tank center and at
both ends.
(e) Shut off the
agitator and pump out the tank.
(f)
Rinse tank and accessories free of milk with clean water immediately after
emptying and disconnecting tubing.
(8) After the milk is pumped to the
transportation tank the milk conductor tubing shall be capped and returned to
the vehicle storage cabinet. Care shall be taken to prevent contamination of
the milk tubing.
