European equipment manufacturers interested in selling in the US dairy market face a regulatory environment that is both difficult to understand from the outside and rarely explained by the people who actually enforce it.

In this fireside conversation, Chris Hylkema, a US state dairy regulator with extensive PMO field inspection experience sits down with 3-A SSI Executive Director Meri Beth Wojtaszek for a direct, unscripted briefing. He will explain what he evaluates when equipment arrives on a plant floor, how certification impacts that process in practice, and what European manufacturers most consistently misunderstand about how US dairy regulation actually works.