This two-day workshop focuses on classroom and hands-on exposure to laboratory methods and procedures in a working dairy laboratory. Testing is centered on all dairy products. You will learn about new testing methods and equipment, micro plating techniques and reading/reporting plates properly, environmental sampling procedures and techniques, sample preparation methods, troubleshooting quality problems, techniques in testing milk products for fat, solids and other chemistry tests (including actually running a Babcock test), and sensory evaluation of dairy products.