Section 65.80. Milk quality test records and reports.

 

(1)   Test records; general.

(a) A person performing a milk quality test shall immediately record the test result and sign the test record. The test record shall specify the date of the test, including the year, the identification number of the milk producer, and the milk shipment from which the milk sample was collected.

(b) No test record may be altered except that errors, if any, may be corrected by marking a single line through the original entry and inserting the correct entry immediately adjacent to the original. A corrected entry shall be initialed by the person who made the corrected entry.

(c) The division may authorize a dairy plant to keep test records in electronic form if the division finds that all of the following requirements are met:

1. The records are effectively secured against loss or tampering.

2. The records can be readily retrieved for inspection by the dairy plant operator and the division.

3. The person who performs the test identifies himself or herself on the test record, by an electronic method that is equivalent to a personal signature.

4. If an erroneous test record is corrected, the correction is identified so that the reader can easily compare the corrected record to the original record.

(2)   Records retained by dairy plant operator. A dairy plant operator shall retain records required under this section for the time period specified under s. ATCP 65.44 and shall make the records available for inspection and copying by the division upon request.

CR 14-073 : cr. Register August 2016 No. 728 , eff. 9-1-16.