US: Looking at regulatory factors of milk and selling dairy products

The safe consumption and distribution of milk and dairy products is highly regulated to keep customers safe. All farms are required to submit milk bulk tank samples for testing to ensure that there are no antibiotics present in the milk. When a milk tanker is contaminated, it costs farms and milk cooperatives money. That’s where services offered by a milk analysis laboratory come in to help prevent this problem from happening for dairies. As many farms diversify their offerings, and explore selling their own dairy products to consumers, testing is necessary to ensure that government regulations are being followed. Working with a certified lab that has numerous departments for testing different types of dairy products is helpful for receiving results quickly and in one location. However, it is important to be mindful of the regulations required for all different dairy products and for what regulations are required locally, in the state, and even federally. In the following two ...