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DeLaval has clearly defined the fact that the key components of a cleaning system include:
- Temperature
- Time
- Motion
- Detergent
These points will already have been identified earlier in this booklet. To ensure a comprehensive cleaning it is necessary to step beyond the points.
It is essential to ensure the general efficiency of the cleaning and associated routines are at a suitably high level. In combination with the above the environment must also be a major consideration in relation to cleaning practices.
Efficiency requires us to ensure that all the aspects of a particular operation are completed in the most suitable way for that particular application.
Modern dairy farmers must be willing to investigate the way we complete an application and question it´s efficiency. Often we have been doing things the same way for many years and it has become habit forming. Because of this it is often difficult to change, but not impossible.
An example is with the installation of a cleaning unit which will operate and control the cleaning of the milking machine with precision. Will a cleaning unit improve your efficiency?
The environment belongs to all of us and it is our responsibility to take care of it. Efficient cleaning should incorporate efficiency in relation to the environment. Water volume should be carefully monitored to avoid waste. Water reuse should be investigated.
Detergent can be handled in an environmentally friendly way by utilising the least amount of detergent to provide correct cleaning. It is also important to handle the packaging correctly after use.
DeLaval concept contains the four key steps required for the cleaning cycle - the correct use of the components in this concept will provide an efficient cleaning of the milking machine and cooling tank to ensure the provision of quality milk but will also provide cleaning which will not be detrimental to the environment.
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