The Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) is the federal model regulation for Grade A fluid, cultured and frozen-dairy production. FDA publishes the PMO; states adopt it and enforce it through their dairy or agriculture department. PMO compliance is prescriptive: pasteurization time/temperature standards, signed pasteurizer charts, CIP and sanitization documentation, drug-residue testing on incoming raw milk, lot traceability to a 24-hour standard, and Grade A-specific construction and equipment requirements.

Plants holding an IMS listing are inspected at least every six months by the state and rated every 24 months by an IMS-certified rater. Losing the IMS rating ends interstate distribution overnight. Modern Grade A plants capture pasteurization charts, CIP cycles and incoming raw-milk screens as signed digital records so the inspector reads the system rather than chasing paper.

Regulatory anchors

Grade A PMO

Industries that live with this

Food Processing

How V5 handles it

MES — operator execution that writes its own batch record.

V5’s MES isn’t a dashboard — it’s the kiosk in the operator’s hands. Every action is signed, in sequence, with the device evidence already attached.

eBMR / eDHR — the batch record writes itself.

When the master is locked and the operator works on the kiosk, the batch record is no longer something to assemble — it’s something to render.

Lot traceability — recall in minutes, not weeks.

V5 captures the lot link at every point of consumption, so the trace is a query — not a war room.

Calibration — overdue gauges can't write to the batch record. Full stop.

Calibration is not a spreadsheet exercise. V5 keeps a register of every gauge, scale, probe and instrument; tracks calibration intervals; stores the vendor calibration cert with as-found / as-left readings; and enforces the rule that matters — an out-of-cal device is blocked from writing to any regulated record. Not warned. Blocked.

Related terms

IMS HACCP