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How clean are your hands?
Published 18 August 09
How clean are your hands?
Milk quality and mastitis control are featured on the DairyCo stand at this years's Dairy Event & Livestock Show.
We will be bringing a clinical monitoring system onto the stand so that you can swab your own hands to see just how much bacteria is present, even when you think they are clean!
The hygiene monitoring system helps to assess hygiene standards and your on farm cleaning procedures to help minimise the transfer of bad bacteria that can cause disease. The machine measures the amount of bad bacteria in a sample which then indicates overall biological contamination of surfaces and milking equipment.
This test is simple and easy to carry out and will show just how important it is to make sure cleaning and hygiene procedures are tight and are stuck to by all farm staff.
Come and visit exhibition hall 3, stand 338 at this year's event and find out more about the DairyCo Mastitis Control Plan and how to effectively manage this issue.
Ends
Date 18 August 2009
For further information:
N: Sarah McGregor
T: 02476 478694
E: sarah.mcgregor@dairyco.org.uk
Notes for Editors:
DairyCo is a division of the statutory levy board, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
DairyCo's current focus is on improving the profitability of dairy farming by focusing on four specific areas:
- Provision of high quality market information to help farmers and their representatives make the most of dairy markets and opportunities.
- Helping dairy farmers increase their profits while meeting regulatory and environmental requirements - through the provision of world class research programmes and practical on-farm tools and services
- Helping promote the positive perception of dairy farming with the general public.
- The development of DairyCo activities towards a self-sustaining model.
DairyCo is funded entirely by milk producers, via a statutory levy on all milk sold off-farm, at the rate of 0.06p per litre. This provides an annual income of around £6.5m.