Does anyone have a document for Sample Retention of Cheese?

Hi! Does anyone have a document for Sample Retention of Cheese? Much appreciated. Thank You!

Hey MMC79! What cheese - hard, soft, cream cheese? What packaging size and shelf life? We're producing cream cheese, shelf life 32 days, pack. size 10 kg mostly. The retention sample size is 90ml: the same as we send to the lab for testing. We retain 3 90ml vials from each batch, for the shelf life period + 5-7 days.

I don't, but would just do

Batch  Batch Date   Type (cheddar/swiss etc)  Sample size    Sample Date    Sample location (bin # or aisle #)

Hey MMC79! What cheese - hard, soft, cream cheese? What packaging size and shelf life? We're producing cream cheese, shelf life 32 days, pack. size 10 kg mostly. The retention sample size is 90ml: the same as we send to the lab for testing. We retain 3 90ml vials from each batch, for the shelf life period + 5-7 days.

Hi,

Hard Cheeses - variety of sizes ranging from 4 oz. to 10 lb. with a variety of shelf life from 4 months to 12 months.

I don't, but would just do

 

Batch  Batch Date   Type (cheddar/swiss etc)  Sample size    Sample Date    Sample location (bin # or aisle #)

Thank you Scampi,

I don't, but would just do

 

Batch  Batch Date   Type (cheddar/swiss etc)  Sample size    Sample Date    Sample location (bin # or aisle #)

Cool.

And Retention Time ??

I'm curious, how much difference between Batch Date and Sample Date ?

Cheese needs time to age no?  So it is probably dependent on that

I worked at a cheese house a lifetime ago.........QA sampled the incoming milk but the cheese was sampled post age in the 600 lbs blocks, and then again as it went down the packaging line