Three Reasons Why You Should Want To Use Lactose Broth In Your Dairy Processing Plant

When you own and operate a dairy processing plant, it is vital that the milk, cream, cheeses, and other dairy products you produce are safe for human consumption. Farmers may wash cow udders and apply a disinfectant before milking, but urine, feces, bacteria, and microbes can still make it into the milk. Careful handling and transport of the milk is not enough, either. Most milk is tested before it is collected from the farmers' holding tanks, but a lot can happen between the milking process and the time that the milk arrives at your plant. You can use a product like SampleReady lactose broth to detect things in the milk that should not be there. Here are three reasons why you should want to use lactose broth in your dairy processing plant. 

Quality Control

All products that your plant produces should be of the highest possible quality. Anything humans eat and drink needs to provide nutrients and healthful benefits, and if your milk and dairy products are of lesser quality, then you could be making people sick. Low quality products might also instigate an investigation by the state's food processing inspectors, something most food plants would choose to avoid. 

Tainted Milk, Tainted Products

Using a lactose broth detects a batch of tainted milk before that milk is added to the holding tanks in your plant. If you do not test incoming batches of milk with the broth, you may be tainting an entire massive supply of milk and products with that single shipment of tainted milk. The repercussions of that mistake could cost you thousands of dollars, not to mention a ton of recalls and product destruction. A tainted batch of milk added to the supply in your plant's holding tanks also results in dozens of hours of plant shutdown while affected tanks and processing lines are shut down to be scrubbed and sanitized. It is just easier to test the milk with the broth as each batch of milk comes in and before that batch is added to the rest of the milk awaiting processing and production into other dairy products. 

Avoiding Scandal

Sometimes bad P.R. is good, right? In this case, that is definitely not true. You do not want your milk and dairy products to have a negative association with the public. Lactose broth testing ensures that you are making high quality dairy products that will not make people sick and that the products will keep them healthy. Ergo, only positive associations with your products are established and maintained.