2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 2. Agriculture
§2-7-409. Sampling and testing.

A. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall collect and analyze representative samples, at least four times in any consecutive six (6) months, of Grade A raw milk for pasteurization and Grade A milk and milk products from each Grade A dairy farm, or milk plant and shall collect and analyze representative Grade A milk and milk products, as required by the Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act and rules promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture.

B. Whenever two of the last four consecutive bacteria counts, somatic cell counts, coliform determinations, or cooling temperatures, taken on separate days, exceed the limit of the standard for the milk and milk products, the Commissioner shall send a written notice to the person concerned. This notice shall be in effect so long as two of the last four consecutive samples exceed the limit of the standard. An additional sample shall be taken within twenty-one (21) days of sending the notice, but not before the lapse of three (3) days.

C. Whenever a phosphatase test on Grade A pasteurized milk is positive, the cause shall be determined; and where the cause is improper pasteurization, it shall be corrected and any milk or milk product involved shall not be offered for sale as Grade A.

D. Whenever an inhibitor test is positive and confirmed, the cause shall be determined, any milk or milk product involved shall not be offered for sale as Grade A, and the dairy farm responsible shall not produce raw milk for Grade A purposes until the milk is found to be free of inhibitors.

E. Samples shall be analyzed in a laboratory approved by the Commissioner. All sampling procedures and required laboratory examinations shall be in substantial compliance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products of the American Public Health Association and the latest edition of Official Methods of Analyses of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. The procedures including the certification of sample collectors and the examinations shall be evaluated in accordance with the Evaluation of Milk Laboratories, 1995 Recommendations of the U.S. Public Health Service/Food and Drug Administration and its successors.

Added by Laws 1981, c. 43, § 9, emerg. eff. April 8, 1981. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 140, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-1301.9 by Laws 1994, c. 140, § 30, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 75, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.