The basis for GUIDELINE 103 Approving Milk and Milk Product Plants for Extended Runs is the 1999 revision to the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO), which made provisions for plants to seek acceptance from their State Regulatory Agency to engage in processing and/or packaging runs longer than the required 24 hours between cleaning cycles (i.e., extended runs).

This guideline provides information that may be useful to FDA and/or USDA regulated plants that desire to obtain an extended run approval and to the state regulatory agencies responsible for evaluating a plants extended run application.

To comply with the 2001 Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO), applications from plants producing Grade ?A? products must have their extended run applications accepted by their respective State Regulatory Agency and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).