(1) The milk transportation company shall be responsible for maintaining the tank and milk contact surfaces of a milk tank truck clean and in good repair. Milk or milk products shall not be placed in such tanks unless the tanks have been properly cleaned and sanitized at a milk plant, receiving station, transfer station, or other licensed milk tank truck cleaning facility.
  (2) Suitable facilities for cleaning and milk contact surfaces of the milk tank trucks shall be provided and the washing and sanitizing of the tanks shall be carried out by the receiving milk plant, transfer station, receiving station, or other licensed milk tank truck cleaning facility. The milk transportation company representative or the bulk milk hauler/sampler shall be responsible for cleaning the hose, pump, and valves. After the cleaning and sanitizing operation is completed, a representative of the milk tank truck cleaning facility shall provide a suitable record identifying who washed the milk tank truck, the license or permit identification number of the milk tank truck, the date, and the location of the facility. The milk transportation company representative or the bulk milk hauler/sampler, after inspection of the tank, shall indicate on the record that the tank has been cleaned to that person‘s satisfaction. A copy of this record shall be kept with the vehicle until it is washed and sanitized again.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 288.534

  • Bulk milk pickup tanker: means a vehicle, including truck, tank, and those appurtenances necessary for its use, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler to transport bulk raw milk for pasteurization from a dairy farm to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Michigan Laws 288.473
  • Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 288.473
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of 1 or more healthy cows, goats, sheep, or other dairy animals. See Michigan Laws 288.474
  • Milk tank truck: means both a bulk milk pickup tanker and a milk transport tank. See Michigan Laws 288.475
  • Milk tank truck cleaning facility: means any place, premises, or establishment, separate from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station where a milk tank truck is cleaned and sanitized. See Michigan Laws 288.475
  • Milk transport tank: means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler to transport bulk shipments of milk from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station to another milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Michigan Laws 288.475
  • Milk transportation company: means the company that is the person responsible for a milk tank truck. See Michigan Laws 288.475
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee, educational institution, state or local government unit, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 288.476
  • Producer: means a person that owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person that markets milk on behalf of a producer under a marketing agreement. See Michigan Laws 288.476
  • Receiving station: means a place, premises, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting. See Michigan Laws 288.476
  • Transfer station: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are transferred directly from 1 milk tank truck to another. See Michigan Laws 288.477
  (3) A bulk milk hauler/sampler operating a bulk milk pickup tanker may make more than 1 trip daily without cleaning and sanitizing the bulk milk pickup tanker. The bulk milk pickup tanker shall be cleaned and sanitized after the final trip of the day, each day of use.
  (4) A milk transport tank shall be cleaned and sanitized each time the tank is emptied.
  (5) Milk may be picked up in the milk tank truck on the return trip to the bulk milk hauler/sampler’s home if the milk tank truck is cool enough to maintain the milk placed in it at or below the legal storage temperature and if the pickup hose and pump are washed and sanitized at a licensed wash facility or at a cleaning facility approved in writing by the director on a case-by-case basis.
  (6) A milk tank truck may be used to haul potable water, or other wholesome liquid food products, if the milk contact surfaces are properly cleaned and sanitized prior to picking up raw milk. Certain pasteurized products, as specified in the pasteurized milk ordinance, must be transported in milk tank trucks dedicated to hauling pasteurized products.
  (7) A milk transfer station or receiving station shall keep daily records identifying which farm loads of milk have been commingled in each milk transport tank. These records shall be kept at the transfer station or receiving station for not less than 30 days.
  (8) Producer samples shall accompany the milk transport tank holding the largest amount of the farm bulk milk pickup tanker’s milk unless the samples are transferred or held for testing at other locations.
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