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Dairy Foods Industry
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Badly dented or damaged milker unit parts are caused by?
Pooling
Bitter-quinine
Alkaline phosphatase
Careless handling
2. What is not one of the duties of the bulk milk hauler - who plays a critical role in milk handling?
Making sure equipment has been cleaned correctly
Half-and-half
100000
Gallon
3. Milk is sold in units of _____ by the producer to the handler.
Cwt
Assessing milk handlers in the order
13
Market stabilization
4. Federal milk marketing orders give _______ an active voice in determining minimum milk prices through public hearings.
Sour
Class I
Milk handlers
Grade A
5. In the care and management of dairy cows - milking takes _____ percent of the labor.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
55
The Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Code
75%
6. One of the mechanisms used by the USDA to remove surplus dairy products from the supply is to subsidize manufacturers who sell overseas at a loss. This is called the?
Listeria monocytogenes
Scientific - technical & economic progress
Dairy Export Incentive Program
Raw to sanitized
7. Dairy cows need _________ day dry periods for rejuvenation of secretary tissue and restoration of body condition
Sub-clinical
60
1937
Brucellosis
8. Under which of the following weather conditions would you expect to observe the greatest decrease in milk yield per cow?
Germicidal teat dip
Sour
Alkaline phosphatase
Hot and humid
9. The pricing of milk in the United States involves a wide variety of pricing regulations based on public policy decisions - including...
Federal Milk Marketing Order
Aged Gouda
100000
Determine whether mammary glands are inflamed
10. Although milk from the cow is processed - it is not an engineered or fabricated food and contains about ________ % solids
Market stabilization
Bacterial
100%
13
11. The utilization of U.S. supply of milk fat in the production of butter over the past 25 years has ___________.
Decreased
Blend
19
Imports of milk protein concentrates and casein
12. What is not a cause of coliform mastitis?
3.25 percent milkfat and 8.25 percent solids-not-fat
Class I
Provide marketing power for dairy farmers
Milking too soon after calving
13. What is not an important reason for a five day-seven degree shelf life test?
Inhibited
It lowers variability among cartons of milk
Cream and milk fat
Raw Fluid Milk
14. One type of test for antibiotics - common adulterants of milk - is based upon the principle that the growth of bacteria is __________ by them.
Inhibited
Hydrometer
Aged Gouda
NASS Cheddar cheese price survey
15. The pasteurized Milk Ordinance regulates what?
Grade A milk
Provide marketing power for dairy farmers
The Food and Drug Administration
Agriculture
16. Regional fluid milk pricing authorities - or compacts - are getting a strong lock in several areas of the country. The first dairy compact that was formed is called the _______.
Pooling
A
48 hours at 32ºC
Northeast dairy compact
17. Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus are examples of _________ .
Lactic acid producing bacteria
I
Temperature and time
Ultra high temperatures
18. The four major sensations are...?
Fat content
Inhibited
100000
Bitter - salt - sour - sweet
19. The most prevalent off flavor of fluid milk is ______.
Bitter - salty
Feed
Brucellosis
Determine whether mammary glands are inflamed
20. The major reason milk from cows treated with antibiotics must be withheld from the milk supply is because _______.
A large proportion of the human population is sensitive to antibiotics
Skim milk
Each state
Excessive agitation of warm raw milk
21. The somatic cell count standard for Grade A raw milk is _____ or less per milliliter of milk.
Pooling
750000
Acid degree value
Sanitary restrictions on production are imposed on producers.
22. The Babcock test is a rapid - simple and accurate test for...
Lactalbumin-casein
Fat content
Feed
Vacuum
23. In the care and management of dairy cows - milking takes _____ percent of the labor.
55
Mastitis
Temperature and time
45
24. The application of heat to milk for the purpose of preservation - with the extra benefit of the protection of public health - continues to develop. Innovative methods are now available for processing milk at ______ with only fractions of a second hol
Hydrometer
Ultra high temperatures
Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S.
Profit margin
25. The percent of U.S. milk production consumed through schools has ___________ in the past 8 years.
Increased
Third
Casein
Cheese
26. Fluid milk contains an average of _____ percent solids.
80%
98%
13
48 - 72
27. The milk-borne illness outbreak that occurred in California via the consumption of a fresh - unripened Mexican type cheese was caused by the microorganism __________.
Homogenization
Listeria monocytogenes
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
National Milk Producers Federation
28. Cornell University's research and evaluation concludes that 'an additional dollar' invested in generic milk advertising will result in a return of $______ in dairy producer revenue.
$5.27
Grade A
Payment made to milk producers for milk
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
29. Products eligible for the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP).
161ºF for 15 seconds
Butter
Federal Milk Marketing Order
Lactose
30. The cost of operating Federal orders is paid by ________.
1.032
Riboflavin
Class I
Assessing milk handlers in the order
31. What directly influence(s) the total supply of milk?
Fluid milk and cream
Prices paid milk producers
Raw Fluid Milk
8.75
32. As with grade A milk - ______ adopts and enforces regulations to control milk used for the manufacturing of milk products.
Milk lock
Each state
Temperature and time
750000
33. A device fitted with a screened lid that helps detect visible abnormalities in milk prior to attaching the milking machine is called a _____.
Strip cup
60
Supermarkets
Tuberculosis and brucellosis
34. What causes flavors in milk such as acid - high acid - or sour milk.
Microorganisms
Early spring and late fall
1000
Increased
35. Over the past 20 years the difference between the prices farmers receive for milk and the prices consumers pay for dairy products has...
National Milk Producers Federation
Vaccuumization
More than doubled
Freezing point
36. The greatest amount of regular ice cream produced in the U.S. is in the _________ section
45
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Scientific - technical & economic progress
West
37. __________ is usually the most abundant of the major solid components of milk.
Gallon
The order must be approved by 2/3 of the producers supplying 3/4 of the milk
Bitter - salt - sour - sweet
Lactose
38. The two most important etlologic agents of mastitis are __________.
The Food and Drug Administration
Streptococcus agaiactiae and Staphylococcus aureaus
11
48 - 72
39. The Standard Plate Count (SPC) has a prescribed incubation time of _____ hours at _____ ºC.
Streak canal
750000
The price to be added or subtracted per 1/10 % of milk fat above or below a set percentage
48 hours at 32ºC
40. Purple color that results from CMT test is generally more intense in samples from infected quarters - because such samples have a __________pH.
Alkaline
West
Inhibited
Hypochlorite sanitizer
41. Flavors of milk may be caused in general by _______________.
Not controlled by Federal Orders
The Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Code
Feeds consumed by the cow
Germicidal teat dip
42. A milk gland that is destroyed because of mastitis is called _____.
18000
Handlers
An atrophied cell
Penicillin
43. S. M. Babcock developed the Babcock Test in _____.
Northeast dairy compact
60
The order must be approved by 2/3 of the producers supplying 3/4 of the milk
1890
44. A _____ needs to be applied to the teat end in order for a milking machine to remove milk.
Sour
Vacuum
Sediment
Centrifuge
45. ___________ is a test for rancidity?
Careless handling
Sterilization
Acid degree value
Grade A
46. Flavors of milk may be caused in general by _______________.
Feed
100000
80%
Feeds consumed by the cow
47. What marketing tool would be used in the futures market by someone who owns a commodity such as milk and intends to sell it sometime in the future?
Aerobic
B. Determining one brand of milk from another
Bitter - salt - sour - sweet
Short hedge
48. In January 2003 - dairy and other food industry organizations testified against a proposed free trade agreement with?
Australia
Milking too soon after calving
Centrifuge
The products made from it by milk processors
49. The cheese price series is based on 63 U.S. cheese plants that make 80 to 85 percent of the bulk Cheddar. What is the price series called?
48 - 72
Hydrometer
Pint
NASS Cheddar cheese price survey
50. The application of heat to milk for the purpose of preservation - with the extra benefit of the protection of public health - continues to develop. Innovative methods are now available for processing milk at ______ with only fractions of a second hol
Raw Fluid Milk
50-50
Flat
Ultra high temperatures