kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
I worked for one of the major Dairies. All testing was done in-house with about 5% sent off site for verification.
When you have 5 or 6 tankers unloading at once (into 1 or 2 silos) there's no time for pishing about waiting for samples to be retested before a tanker discharges.
All the lab staff were trained up by the company-there're not scientists or chemists by any stretch of the imagination. I wouldn't trust them to test my tea for milk and sugar, let alone decide on quality of a product I sell.. But they were better than the tanker drivers who do the on-farm sampling. External lorry wash was built without the recommended drainage (too expensive) so was usually flooded with dirty water-imagine the state of the tankers and the drivers getting in and out 7 or 8 times per shift.
Just ask your buyer if you can have a look around their labs -unannounced.
What do you mean, no time for a tanker to be retested?
Surely if its inhibs positive it's parked until cleared or otherwise?