Dairy Ruminations

"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Washington Grade A
Dairy Licensing

Washington State Department of Agriculture
Food Safety

Claudia Coles
manager of WSDA Food Safety

Dairy Laws & Rules

360...902.1876

email: foodsafety@agr.wa.gov

 

Lee Eldridge, DVM
Washington State Veterinarian
LEEldridge@agr.wa.gov

Washington state's timeline of animal health outbreaks

360...902.1878

 

Deanie Elwell
Contact Deanie and let her know you want to receive
copies of your monthly milk test results
DElwell@agr.wa.gov

Linda Condon
Contact Linda to be put on WSDA's webpage
listing licensed Raw Milk dairies
LCondon@agr.wa.gov

 

Grade A and Milk Processing Plant license application forms

FDA Small Business Exemption - Nutrition Label

WSDA Raw Milk Info

County Dept of Health Inspectors for Farmers Market regulations

Food Handler's Card

Dairy Farm Manual

Laws & Rules

Websites are not always kept up to date - phone the department and ask

Revised Code of Washington (RCW)
  Title 15 Agriculture and marketing
  15.36 Milk and milk products
  15.37 Milk and milk products for animal food
  15.44 Dairy products commission
  15.64

Farm marketing

  15.83 Agriculture marketing and fair practices
  15.86 Organic food products
  15.92 Center for sustaining agriculture and natural resources
     
  Title 16 Animals and livestock
  16.86 Brucellosis and tuberculosis in cattle and goats
     
  Title 69 Food, Drugs, Cosmetics and Poisons
  69.04 Intrastate commerce in food, drugs, and cosmetics
69.04 Intrastate commerce in food, drugs, and cosmetics
  69.25 Washington wholesome eggs and egg products act
  69.07 Washington food processing act

 

USDA http://www.ams.usda.gov/dairy/

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service:
David R. Jamison, Chief,
USDA/AMS Dairy Programs, Promotion and Research Branch
1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Stop 0233
Washington, D.C. 20250-0233 Phone (202) 720-6909
email: David.Jamison2@usda.gov

Grade "A" Pasteurized Milk Ordinance ("the PMO")

Email the WSDA Food Safety division to find out how to get a copy of the PMO book, and to find out which revision is currently being used as a "bible" by the WSDA.

 

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