Is dirty equipment OK under HACCP?
Dirty equipment is not acceptable under the PMO and is covered in the Grade “A” PMO, Appendix K. PP’s. • A milk plant wants to use the same piping system to deliver product recovery water and cleaning and/or sanitizing solutions. What safeguards are needed to protect the public health? A: The Grade “A” Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) Item 15p(B) 1 prohibits direct piping connections between pipelines and equipment used to contain or conduct milk and milk products with tanks or circuits containing cleaning and/or sanitizing solutions except when a specific type of block and bleed valve system is used. Sub-item (7) of this item allows variations from those specifications if the variations have been individually evaluated and found acceptable and the level of protection is not compromised. A variation must be validated under the milk plant HACCP system. These variations must be accepted by the state and FDA. The criteria to be used to accept a variation could include an individual proces
