Dairy Standard Agency

Product monitoring program on behalf of client

Project Manager: Mrs T Blignaut

Job Title: Operations Manager

Resources: User Pay (Non-statutory budget)

Project purpose

To provide roleplayers in the dairy industry such as retail groups with a service which facilitate sustainable milk and other dairy product monitoring programs on their behalf. All projects that are facilitated by DSA on behalf of a client are based on a signed service level agreement.

To measure product compliance with quality and safety standards prescribed in terms of the legislation listed in footnote5 on behalf of the clients.

To provide the clients with the relevant results in terms of the service level agreement.

Project description

The project is based on a service level agreement between the DSA and the client. The aim is to promote professional and scientific evaluation of dairy products based on all product compositional and safety standards prescribed in terms of the acts listed in footnote[1].

The project focus on the analysis of any dairy and related food products as stipulated in the service level agreement between DSA and the client as well as conveying test results that are conveyed directly to the client.

Individual reports on samples are followed up by comprehensive reports compiled at the end of each year on all the results obtained for the duration period of the agreement.  This report is communicated during the first quarter of the next year to the client.

FOOTNOTES:

The legal standards are determined by regulations issued in terms of the following acts:

  • Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act 54 of 1972);
  • Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act 119 of 1990);
  • Fertilisers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act 36 of 1947);
  • Department of Trade and Industry, National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) and the application of the relevant regulations in terms of the