COLUMBUS, Ohio DHIA
announced new quality limits on
its national network of milk test
ing labs effective June 1. Phil
Dukas, director of technical deve
lopment, presented new perfor
mance limits at the March 12th
National DHIA convention in
Greensboro, N.C.
“Dairy producers should expect
consistent results regardless of
their location,” said Dukas. “Our
control sample program has reve
aled a few deficiencies in our
program because not all of our 200
machines are performing as they
should. We have already identi
fied a certain condition that was
affecting 11 similar machines,” he
said, “now we go to work to find
the cause of the problem.”
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These deficiencies can and will
be corrected by documenting the
quality of the DHIA System. First
of all, the Quality Certification
(QC) program will need to be
more balanced with greater
emphasis of accuracy at the field
level.
One of the goals set forth by
Dukas is to simplify the QC
manual.
“We need to cut this manual in
half and take it to a broader level
and let the states decide on how to
implement the guidelines which
are outlined in this document We
have good people at the state and
regional level and I think it’s time
for the quality, drive and motiva
tion to be at that level,” he said.
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Secondly, the Verified Records
Program (VRP) should be adopted
in areas covering at least SO per
cent of the cows by the end of this
year, yet not as a requirement of
QC.
“States that have adopted VRP
internally look at the results and
determine why differences exist
between meter weights and bulk
lank weights. This is a sound prin
ciple that should eventually be in
100 percent of our system,” said
Dukas.
In the past few months, state
and regional presidents have been
receiving updated reports for their
state on what is happening in the
labs.
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"We view it as the president’s
legal responsibility to ask their
manager about the quality of the
lab program," said Dukas.
“We also intend to bring 42
quality officers into the DHIA
System. Every DHIA should have
a key individual that is responsible
for quality issu
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