date:Aug 01, 2013
d standard plate counts for raw milk. Although the federal threshold in the United States is 750,000 cells per milliliter of milk, the standard set by the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, the national average based on the Dairy Herd Improvement Association and USDA Federal Milk Market records are around 300,000. The EU threshold is set at 400,000.
The derogation allowed by the program is conditional; farms must take action to improve their counts or demonstrate that the non-compliant counts were cau