Identity Preserved Soybean Trucking Procedures
Trucks or wagons that have been used to haul the following products should not be loaded with Identity Preserved(IP) or organic crops for this facility for this facility:
- Toxic and corrosive materials and any packaging used for these materials
- Radio-active materials
- Animal and poultry wastes, including manures/litter
- Mammalian protein e.g. Meat and bone meal, meat meal, cull cake and other mammalian based products (milk and milk products, gelatin, amino acids, dicalcium phosphate, dried plasma, and any other blood products are permitted).
- SRM/Cull tallow
- Mineral clays which have been used for detoxification purposes
- Cereal and other seed treated with toxic dressing (excluding bagged or packed seed)
- Glass
- Hides treated with tanning substance and its waste
- Scrap metal
- Sludge from sewage plants treating waste waters
- Solid urban wastes, such as household waste
- Untreated waste from eating places, except foodstuffs of vegetable origin considered unsuitable for human consumption for reasons of freshness
Drivers are responsible to provide an undertaking to this effect if required and acknowledge these products have not been hauled by signing the bill of lading cleanliness statement, and stating the last three previous loads hauled.
Trucks that have been used to haul the following products should only be loaded with IP or organic crops after being cleaned as defined below:
- Tallow’s (other than SRM/Cull Tallow)
- Strong smelling materials
- Any product known to be salmonella positive
- Packaging and parts of packaging from products used in agriculture or the food industry
- Wood, sawdust or other materials derived from wood, any of which have been treated with wood protection products
Trucks must be pressure cleaned with a 1% hot (70-80 C) solution of any combined detergent/sanitizer after they are used to carry any of the above products. The load sheet must also be cleaned in the same manner. The vehicle and sheet must be drained and dry before reuse.
Proof will be required to be given that appropriate cleaning has been done when the above materials have been carried prior to an IP and organic crop. Drivers will acknowledge that signing the bill of lading has carried out the appropriate cleaning.
Trucks that have been used to haul the following products should only be loaded with an IP crop for this facility after being cleaned as defined below:
- Aggregates (other than fine/granular limestone products)
- Coal/fly ash/ coal by-products
- Fertilizer
- Salt
- Medicated feed products
- Nuts/nut products/sesame seed
- GMO soybeans
- GMO corn
Where the material is dry, a thorough sweeping and/or vacuuming will be considered sufficient. However, if the material is caked or damp, washing will be required.
Proof will be required to be given that appropriate cleaning has been done when the above materials have been carried prior to an IP and organic crop. Drivers will acknowledge that signing the bill of lading has carried out the appropriate cleaning.
