1. At least once every thirty days an estimate of the bacterial quality shall be made of each producer’s milk by use of a standard plate count or an equivalent plate counting procedure in an officially designated laboratory.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 194.6

  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Payment: means the actual payment or tender of payment by a grain dealer to a seller of the agreed purchase price, or in the case of disputes as to sales of grain, the undisputed portion of the purchase price without reduction for any separate claim of the grain dealer against the seller. See Iowa Code 203.8
 2. For the purpose of quality improvement and payment, the following classifications of milk for bacterial estimate are applicable:

Bacterial Estimate            Standard Plate Count Classification            or Equivalent _____________________________________________________Class 1            Not over 100,000 per Milliliter Class 2            Not over 300,000 per Milliliter Undergrade            Over 300,000 per Milliliter