DEPARTMENT OF LIVESTOCK
ANIMAL HEALTH & FOOD SAFETY DIVISION:
MEAT, MILK & EGG INSPECTION BUREAU
MILK AND EGG SECTION
PROGRAM AND BUDGET COST ANALYSIS
The Milk and Egg Section’s primary responsibility is to ensure that milk, manufactured dairy products and eggs that are produced, manufactured or sold in Montana are safe and wholesome. The milk inspection serves as the State’s mandated FDA compliance program that allows inspected products to pass into interstate commerce. Without this function our dairy producers and processors would not be able to market their products across state lines. The egg inspection service provides the official USDA grading for approximately 500,000 eggs processed each day at Montana Egg Products in Great Falls. Without this program this business would not be able to market their products and we would not be in a position to expand egg production and processing within the state in the future.
Title 81.20.201-209 Eggs - The Section is responsible for Wholesale Egg Dealers and Egg Graders to ensure that eggs are properly graded and handled. The Bureau ensures that eggs are labeled properly and meet the standards of label grade claims.
Title 81.21.101-106 Dairy Products - The Section regulates the dairies producing milk for public consumption to ensure that national quality standards for milk production are maintained. The Bureau also regulates milk plants processing milk and cream or selling dairy products. The Bureau ensures dairy products are safe, wholesome and meet the product's standards of identity.
Title 81.22.101-602 Manufactured Dairy Products - The Section establishes and regulates sanitary and quality standards for dairy producers and dairy product manufacturers. The Bureau also regulates the hauling, sampling and testing of milk and cream by the milk plant or its operatives. The Bureau ensures that manufactured dairy products produced or sold in Montana are labeled properly. Pasteurized if necessary, safe, wholesome, and meet the product's standards of identity.
Auditing Technician (0.75 FTE)
Dairy Sanitarian (3.00 FTE)
Egg Grader (2.00 FTE)