Translation of "Analyse gravimétrique par procédé thermique " (French → English) :

In accordance with the competent national authority, instructions concerning the conditions of preservation (chemical, temperature), transport, storage and time between sampling and analysis of milk shall be prepared by the testing laboratory according to the type of milk and the procedure of analysis to be used.

Comments related to: the need to define a variety of heat treatments equivalent to the one proposed; the requirement for a test in addition to record-keeping to determine whether a given cheese was manufactured from heat-treated milk; the need to permit technologies other than pasteurization and heat treatment; the disruption of the imported raw milk cheese trade if the proposal were to be implemented; serious financial loss if the inventory of raw milk cheeses presently being aged would have to be destroyed; loss of flavour of hard cheeses due to pasteurization and heat treatment of milk; heat treatment or pasteurization is not ne ...[+++]cessary if good hygienic production practices are followed on the farm for raw milk; the financial burden of purchasing, installing and operating pasteurizers.