Avoid antibiotics in the milk
Antibiotics or other medicinal residues in the milk are unacceptable. Read about the most important precautions to take to avoid antibiotics or medicinal residues in both milking parlors and robotic milking.
Antibiotics or other medicinal residues in the milk are unacceptable. Read about the most important precautions to take to avoid antibiotics or medicinal residues in both milking parlors and robotic milking.
Both from an ethical point of view and for the image and credibility of the Danish milk production, it is absolutely crucial that neither antibiotics nor other medicinal residues are found in the milk which is bought by consumers or used for further processing. Therefore, the milk from every tanker arriving at the dairy is tested. In the rare case that the test is positive, the content of the tanker is destroyed. By means of the test taken at every farm when the milk is collected, the farm from which the antibiotic residues come is identified, and the bill for the destroyed milk is sent directly to the farmer. The bill may amount to 100,000 DKK. At the same time, the dairy contacts the farmer in question, and if he fails to locate the source of the error, a dairy quality advisor will help him pinpoint what went wrong. In this way, similar incidents in the future are best avoided. Annually, approx. 156,000 tests from tankers are taken and about 125 are positive. This equals 0.08%. In other words, these incidents are very rare.
Naturally, one of the most important tasks of being a dairy farmer is to make sure that no medicinal residues whatsoever end up in the milk. Best practice routines and a plan for labelling, registration and milking those cows in treatment separately help prevent these errors. Read about the most important precautions and routines to avoid antibiotic residues in the milk.
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