Sampling

DPC 25, Cleaning & Sanitation Responsibilities for Bulk Pickup & Transport Tankers

DPC-025

This guideline presents pertinent current information on the cleaning and sanitizing of fluid milk processing equipment.

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DPC 24, Troubleshooting High Bacteria Counts of Raw Milk

DPC-024

This guideline is designed to help laboratory, field personnel and producers determine the cause and methods of correction of high bacteria counts in raw milk.

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DPC 7, Sampling Fluid Milk

DPC-007

This guideline is designed to help laboratory, field personnel and producers determine the cause and methods of correction of high bacteria counts in raw milk.

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DPC 21, Raw Milk Quality Tests

DPC-021

This guideline provides information on the common tests used for evaluating the quality of raw milk.

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DPC 22, Control of Antibacterial Drugs and Growth Inhibitors in Milk and Milk Products

DPC-022

This guideline is designed to give some general information about the control of antibacterial drugs and growth inhibitors in milk and milk products.

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DPC 10, Maintaining and Testing Fluid Milk Shelf Life

DPC-010

The purpose of this guideline is to provide the dairy processor and other interested parties with recommendations for optimizing pasteurized product shelf-life.

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DPC 11, Sediment Testing and Producing Clean Milk

DPC-011

This guideline presents the merits of the sediment test, standards, details on performing the test, instructions on how to produce clean milk, and concludes with a brief statement about filtering milk.

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DPC 13, Environmental Air Control and Quality for Dairy Food Plants

DPC-013

This guideline provides an overview of what is involved in treatment of air for ventilation of dairy plants and factors to consider in establishing the level of quality needed and movement of air within a plant.

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DPC 17, Prevention of and Testing for Added Water in Milk

DPC-017

This guideline describes proper production and sampling techniques, on the farm, in the tank truck and at the plant, to prevent the addition of water to milk as well as correct laboratory testing procedures to aid in its accurate detection.

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DPC 18, Field Person's Guide to Troubleshooting High Somatic Cell Counts

DPC-018

This guideline briefly discusses the significance of the problem of high somatic cell count (abnormal milk).

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DPC 32, Fat Test Variations in Raw Milk

DPC-032

This guideline discusses many of the reasons for fat test variations in raw milk. It references methods for testing sample vials for leakage.

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DPC 34, Butterfat Determination of Various Products

DPC-034

This Guideline provides the most commonly used chemical tests for the determination of butterfat in various dairy products.

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DPC 40, Controlling Fluid Milk Volume and Fat Losses

DPC-040

This guideline provides useful information to control product losses from the farm bulk tank to the receiving room, and shrink within the processing plant.

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DPC 50, Farm Bulk Milk Collection Procedures

DPC-050

This guideline provides information to the bulk milk hauler/sampler, the vital link between producers and handlers, on the proper techniques, principles, and procedures.

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DPC 51, Controlling the Accuracy of Electronic Testing Instruments for Milk Components

DPC-051

This guideline sets down suitable procedures to be followed for adjusting and controlling the accuracy of electronic testing instruments.

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DPC 56, Dairy Product Safety (Pathogenic Bacteria) for Fluid Milk and Frozen Dessert Plants

DPC-056

This guideline presents recommendations for minimizing the contamination of dairy products with pathogenic bacteria.

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DPC 75, CD Direct Microscopic Examination of Milk From Small Ruminants

DPC-075

This PowerPoint guideline explains the reasons, and methods, for performing direct microscopic somatic cell counting of milk from dairy animals with apocrine mammary systems.

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