NMPF Delegates Vote to Lower SCC Limit to 400,000 in 2014
November 5, 2010
NMPF Delegates Vote to Lower SCC Limit to 400,000 in 2014
NMPF delegates last week passed a resolution calling on the 2011 National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments to lower the Somatic Cell Count (SCC) limit over a period of three years. The resolution, adopted during the NMPF Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, calls for reducing SCC levels in a stepwise fashion to allow producers sufficient time to meet the lowered SCC requirements, with the following thresholds:
- 600,000 per mL, effective January 1, 2012;
- 500,000 per mL, effective January 1, 2013;
- 400,000 per mL, effective January 1, 2014;
- Regulatory discretion ― while assuring public health ― to temporarily allow for seasonality-dependant increases or events outside of human control; and
- Continuation of current regulatory enforcement of a warning notice when two of the last four Somatic Cell Count tests exceed the limit, and suspension when three of the last five Somatic Cell Count tests exceed the limit.
Please contact Jamie Jonker for more information.
