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Often the purveyor performs other quality test including milk fat, added water,
acidity, total solids, specific animal drug residues, pre-incubation and
laboratory pasteurized quality tests, and keeping quality (shelf life) tests.

Laboratory and sampling personnel are trained and certified according to strict
guidelines and must renew their certificates on a routine basis.

This is only a partial explanation of the total national milk control program.
Specifics on NCIMS agreements, procedures, and rating or survey methods
are found in the most current revision of the Procedures Governing the
Cooperative State-Public Health Service/FDA Program of the National
Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments and the Methods of Making
Sanitation Ratings of Milk Shippers.

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