The Maine Cheese Guild will sponsor a Dairy Sanitation Workshop to be given by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Orono on May 16th. This year it will — for the first time — include a demonstration session of cleaning and sanitizing procedures using dairy production and processing equipment.

This is an all-day workshop, but will include a catered lunch.

May 16, 2013 – 8:00am-5:00pm

Nutting Hall, Room 204 – University of Maine, Orono campus

For directions and a campus map, please visit these web sites:

http://umaine.edu/about/driving-directions/

http://www.umaine.edu/locator/home-2/display-building/?id=261

Lunch is included and coffee and snacks in the morning.

Space is limited to the first 30 people.

Cost for Guild Members: $30.00

Non-Guild Members: $60.00

This workshop will cover an overview of sanitation topics such as bacterial pathogens related to dairy products, milking/milk room sanitation, as well as facility sanitation. Ronda Stone from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry will also talk about sanitation from an inspector’s perspective. Other special guests will include Sarah Spring, Spring Day Creamery who will discuss her own recent sanitation issues and how she overcame them. We will also have hands-on activities in the Pilot Plant to take the theory we learned and put it to practice.

An online registration web site link will be posted on the Maine Cheese Guild web site in the next few weeks.

A detailed agenda will soon follow. Thanks and if you have any questions, please contact Beth Calder at UMCE.