BS ISO 5707:2007

This standard BS ISO 5707:2007 Milking machine installations. Construction and performance is classified in these ICS categories:

• 65.040.10 Livestock buildings, installations and equipment

This International Standard specifies the minimum performance and information requirements and certain dimensional requirements for satisfactory functioning of milking machines for milking and cleaning. It also specifies minimum requirements for materials, design, manufacture and installation.

This International Standard is applicable to milking machines for milking cows, water buffaloes, sheep and goats where animals are milked with pulsation created by vacuum, and where milk is, at least partly, transported with the help of airflow. Some clauses are not applicable to all types of milking machines. The qualitative requirements also apply to installations for milking other mammals used for milk production.