Storage, handling, loading and transportStorage, handling, loading and transport

Storage, handling, loading and transport

7.1 Milk and milk products (other than shelf stable milk and milk products) for export as food must be maintained during storage, handling, loading and transport at:

(a) temperatures specified for chilling or freezing the milk and milk products concerned in paragraph 4.1 (a) or paragraph 6.1 (a) (as the case may be) of this Schedule; or

(b) the alternative temperature specified for maintaining the milk and milk products concerned in the applicable approved arrangement.

Note For the meaning of shelf stable see order 7.

7.2 Shelf stable milk and milk products for export as food must be maintained during storage, handling, loading and transport at the temperature specified for maintaining the milk and milk products concerned in the applicable approved arrangement.

7.3 If paragraph 7.1 (b) or subclause 7.2 applies the applicable approved arrangement must validate that:

(a) maintaining the milk and milk products concerned at the alternative temperature; and

(b) the way in which this is to be done;

minimises the growth of pathogens that could adversely affect the fitness for human consumption of the milk and milk products given the conditions under which they are to be stored, handled, loaded and transported.

Note 1 For the meaning of validate see order 7.

Note 2 For verification requirements see subclause 3.7 and clause 5 of Schedule 2.