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This rulemaking would modernize and increase efficiency of the current butterfat testing process offered as part of Grading Services by creating a butterfat test recordkeeping requirement for dairy product manufacturing plants and eliminate redundant USDA testing. Currently, plants conduct regular tests to ensure compliance with composition standards and a USDA inspector conducts another test at the time of inspection. Requiring records of the plant butterfat tests to be made available during a USDA inspection would reduce an additional test and allow USDA to ensure more consistent butterfat composition since there would be multiple test records to review.