Standard 4.2.4 PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING STANDARD FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS(Australia only)
Purpose and commentary
This Standard sets out a number of food safety requirements, including the implementation of documented food safety programs for dairy primary production, collection, transportation and processing. However, this Standard does not apply to retail sale activities. Chapter 3 of this Code covers retail sale activities.
Table of Provisions
Division 1 – Preliminary
1 Interpretation
2 Application
Division 2 – Dairy primary production requirements
3 Controlling food safety hazards
4 Specific requirements
5 Tracing
6 Skills and knowledge
Division 3 – Dairy collection and transportation
7 Controlling food safety hazards
8 Specific requirements
9 Product tracing
10 Time and temperature controls
11 Skills and knowledge
Division 4 – Dairy processing
12 Application
13 Controlling food safety hazards
14 Product tracing
15 Processing of milk and dairy products
16 Processing of dairy products to make cheese and cheese products
Clauses
Division 1 – Preliminary
1 Interpretation
(1) Unless the contrary intention appears, the definitions in Chapters 2 and 3 of this Code apply to this Standard.
(2) In this Standard –
Authority meansthe State, Territory or Commonwealth government agency or agencies having the legal authority to implement and enforce this Standard.
control measure means a measure that prevents, eliminates or reduces to an acceptable level, a food safety hazard.
dairy primary production means the production of milk or colostrum for further processing for human consumption and includes the keeping, grazing, feeding and milking of animals and the storage of milk on the premises at which the animals were milked.
dairy primary production business means a business, enterprise or activity that involves dairy primary production.
dairy processing includes the manufacture of dairy products.
dairy processing business means a business, enterprise or activity that involves dairy processing.
dairy products include –
(a) milk; and
(b) colostrum; and
(c) liquid milk products; and
(d) cream and thickened cream; and
(e) butter, butter concentrate, buttermilk, concentrated buttermilk, dairy blend, ghee, and anhydrous milk fat (butter oil); and
(f) casein, caseinate, and cheese; and
(g) whey, whey cream and concentrated whey cream; and
(h) cultured milk and yoghurt; and
(i) ice-cream and ice-cream mix; and
(j) buttermilk powder, lactose powder, milk sugar, powdered milk, skim milk powder, whey powder, milk protein powder and other milk concentrates.
dairy transport business means a business, enterprise or activity involving the collection and transport of milk from the dairy primary production business to the processing business or the transport of bulk milk or dairy products between dairy processors.
inputs includes any feed, water and chemicals, including agricultural and veterinary chemicals, used in connection with the primary production of milk or colostrum.
2 Application
(1) Deleted
(2) This Standard does not apply in New Zealand.
(3) This Standard does not apply to retail sale activities.
Division 2 – Dairy primary production requirements
3 Controlling food safety hazards
A dairy primary production business must control its potential food safety hazards by implementing a documented food safety program.
4 Specific requirements
(1) For clause 3, the control measures must manage the hazards arising from –
(a) inputs; and
(b) the design, construction, maintenance and operation of premises and equipment; and
(c) milking animals; and
(d) persons involved in milking; and
(e) milking practices.
(2) For clause 3, the control measures must also –
(a) include support programs that ensure that premises and equipment are clean and sanitary and that pests are controlled; and
(b)
