Listeria Monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that causes a disease called listeriosis. How does this affect the dairy industry and what is being done to minimise the risks?
Lactoperoxidase System
What is lactoperoxidase? Why should it be used and what are the issues?
Food Additives
What are food additives ? Why are food additives used ? … and more information on safety of food additives in this fact sheet prepared by the IDF Standing Committee on Food Additives.
Feed Associated Mycotoxins in the dairy chain: Occurrence and control
The importance of mycotoxins in the dairy industry and their management.
Factsheet on IDF, providing an overview of its role in the global dairy sector.
Factsheet on IDF, providing an overview of its role in the global dairy sector
Economic Importance of Dairying
The Economic Importance of Dairying factsheet provides information on dairy production, trade and employment around the world.
Dairy Policies & Economics: Country Report May 2014
Summary of the country reports from Members of the IDF Standing Committee on Dairy Policies and Economic (SC DPE) from 17 countries – covers the months leading up to May 2014.
Dairy Policies & Economics: Country Report – October 2015
Summary report from members of the IDF Standing Committee on Dairy Policies and Economics (SC DPE) from 14 countries – country reports covering the six months leading up to September 2015.
Control and Detection of Antimicrobial Residues in Milk
Antimicrobials are used in veterinary medicine to treat infectious diseases in animals caused or complicated by microorganisms, mainly bacteria, or to prevent the development or spread of infection in healthy animals. The factsheet details the necessary steps for their prudent use and important risk minimizations practices. It also features information on the IDF/ISO guidance to […]
Antimicrobial Resistance – IDF Factsheet
The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria has had profound effects on the management of therapeutic approaches to both human and veterinary diseases. Treatment and control of mastitis is the most common use of antimicrobials in dairy cows.
