CENTRAL MILK TESTING
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Analytical solutions for central milk testing - payment & dairy herd improvement Dedicated Analytical Solutions

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Where FOSS adds value DAIRY HERD ANALYTICAL LABORATORY Raw milk holds a wealth of valuable data that can help us to make significant improvements in the dairy milk supply. For over 40 years, FOSS has worked to unlock this value by developing dedicated analytical solutions for central milk testing laboratories, allowing you to offer an unrivalled range of services within dairy herd improvement and payment analysis. Within dairy herd improvement, accurate and timely analysis results provided by FOSS solutions helps dairy farmers to: Similarly, in payment analysis of raw milk, FOSS solutions...

For over 40 years FOSS has led the way in improving raw milk quality around the globe DAIRY INDUSTRY FOSS works side by side with dairies and milk testing laboratories around the world. Often being the first with groundbreaking innovations, our goal is to keep you a few steps ahead of the game with new analysis options for improved business opportunities. Here’s a selection of some of our innovations over the years. FOSS was first to: • Develop a rapid method for individual bacteria count as used in BactoScan™ • Introduce automatic somatic cell counting as used in Fossomatic™ • Use Fourier...

Routine tests avoid the costs of disease Milk analysis with FOSS can reveal important information about the health of the dairy herd How to avoid clinical and sub-clinical mastitis Mastitis is a costly disease both for individual farmers and the dairy industry as a whole, leading to unwanted veterinary costs, antibiotics, milk retention, decreased yield, poor quality and reduced payment and culling. Somatic cells are white blood cells (leukocytes) and cells from the udder secretory tissue (epithelial cells) which eliminate infections and repair tissue damage done by bacteria. SOMATIC CELL...

“For every cow with clinical mastitis there are 15 – 40 others with sub clinical mastitis” ACETONE/BHB CONCENTRATION As ketosis can often be a herd problem, a single alert gives the herd manager a timely warning to examine all early lactation cows. Ketosis risk assessment Ketosis is a metabolic disease that can cost the dairy farmer a lot of money. It can reduce milk yield by over 500 kilograms of milk per cow per year, while also having an adverse effect on reproduction and welfare for the individual cows. A screening system from FOSS can provide an early warning of ketosis in dairy herds....

An additional kilogram of casein in the milk supply means three to four kilograms more cheese Feed indicators allow fine-tuning for profit Feed is a major production cost for dairy farmers. It also impacts fertility and optimal feeding reduces the environmental impact of dairy herds by avoiding unnecessary high levels of nitrogen in urine. With FOSS milk testing equipment you can empower dairy farmers to get feed mix just right by giving them timely information derived from key parameters of milk such as Fat, Protein and Urea. As well as a normal payment parameter, fat content can be used...

Parameters Fat, Protein (true & crude), Casein, Lactose, Solids (SnF & TS), Urea, Citric Acid, Free Fatty Acids, Fatty Acids Profile (15 Acids), Freezing Point Depression, pH, Ketosis Screening, Abnormal Spectrum Screening, Somatic Cells, Individual Bacteria Count 9

BactoScan™ FC+ is the only US FDA/NCIMS approved rapid electronic counting method and has several national approvals Quality starts on the farm Your milk testing services have a vital role to play in helping farmers deliver quality milk with a long shelf life and with the qualities demanded by dairy producers and consumers. Raising the hygiene level with bacteria counting Milk with a high bacterial load is an undesirable raw material for dairy production. Although pasteurisation kills the majority of bacteria, their metabolites may cause offflavours, and enzymes continue their activities...

Milk with a healthier balance of saturated and unsaturated fats Another FOSS innovation is the ability to monitor saturated and unsaturated fat content in milk to improve the quality of raw milk entering the supply chain and improving the characteristics of milk for healthier dairy products. grass grazing and less corn has been found to reduce levels of saturated fats. Breeding programs have helped to breed cows giving a more favourable balance of fatty acids in milk. FOSS MilkoScan™ FT+ can reveal the main 15 groups of fatty acids in a milk sample. Dairy farmers whose milk does not match...

Protecting the supply chain As a key junction between the dairy farm and the milk used by dairy producers, your testing services can have an important impact on the integrity of the milk supply. In addition to performing standard tests such as bacteria count, fat and protein, somatic cell count and freezing point depression, FOSS milk analysis technology allows you to offer dairies screening for accidental or intentional adulteration of milk. Such tests can be performed simultaneously with routine tests, involving no extra sample handling and at little extra cost to your operations....

Screening for abnormalities Raw milk containing abnormalities is a growing problem. The abnormalities can be caused by deliberate adulteration, for example with lard or melamine, or by accident, for example, if milk from cows and buffalo are mixed unintentionally. FOSS instruments are already used around the world to check raw milk for payment and quality assurance purposes and can be programmed using the Abnormal Spectrum Screening Module (ASM) to also screen incoming raw milk samples. This feature helps to identify a suspect raw milk sample quickly and as a normal part of everyday...

All measuring the same: Equaliser samples keep your instrument standardised. Higher standards in the laboratory At FOSS, excellence in analysis starts with highly stable and accurate analysers and extends to all aspects of instrument maintenance and calibration. Benefits for your laboratory include: A very robust calibration can be developed to cover many dimensions in the measurement such as race, feeding, season and region, where you traditionally need to develop and maintain several calibrations. This means reduced calibration development and maintenance costs, as less reference analyses...