Point of Cow

19/06/2025

It's clearly easier to drive to your vet with a milk sample, drive back home and then wait a couple of days for the vet to call you with the result, than to just do the analysis on the farm ;-)

18/06/2025

June 11, 2025:

Denmark is committing to the global fight against AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance)

'Point-of-Cow' has - through ICARS - delivered test, that enabled dairy farmers in Kenya to use antibiotics when - and ONLY when - it makes sense 👍

On 11 June 2025, the Danish government launched its new National Action Plan (NAP) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), reaffirming its long-standing commitment to addressing this urgent global health and development challenge. As part of the plan and Denmark’s international engagement, the governme...

05/12/2024

Et basalt problem i 'on-farm-analyse' er, at der ude i staldmiljøet og i alle bygninger rundt omkring ikke er tilnærmelsesvis så rent, som der skal være for at lave bakterieanalyse. Point-of-Cow -testen foregår i et lukket miljø, og derfor er den også meget mere robust, så man er sikker på, at det, der viser sig i testen også stammer fra mælken fra yveret og ikke alle mulige andre steder fra.
Det to test herunder blev fyldt med pasteuriseret mælk tirsdag morgen på Agromek. De er her - gennem fire dage - blevet 'vendt og drejet og pillet ved af 100er af besøgende, og alligevel, her halvanden uge senere, er der stadig ikke vækst i kamrene. Så, den kan du stole på ;-)

17/09/2024

Why you should discard your antibiotics milk instead of feeding it to your calves:

The list of standard abbreviations for JDS is available at adsa.org/jds-abbreviations-24. Nonstandard abbreviations are available in the Notes.

16/08/2024

"Jump to the future" ... Informed decision making before EVERY antibiotics treatment is administered 👍

13/06/2024

Den fagfællebedømte, videnskabelige underbygning publiceret i marts 2024:

Laboratory evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test for dairy mastitis - Volume 91 Issue 1

07/06/2024

'First page' in food safety is: Identifying patogenic bacteria in the primary production 👍

Use if you produce milk for consumption.

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Every year, the World Food Safety Day is an opportunity to highlight IDF's activities on safety and quality of dairy products. This year’s theme ‘Prepare for the unexpected’ is particularly fit to highlight two initiatives from our membership to improve the monitoring of the dairy chain and reduce the potential for safety incidents.

you can watch again the International dairy Federation's open webinar "IDF Celebrates World Food Safety Day" here 👉 https://bit.ly/3xavmxx

16/04/2024

And the right tool is only "a click away"!!

The authors are a graduate student and a professor at the University of Calgary. Co-contributors include Kayley D. McCubbin, Julia Bodaneze, Ben Caddey, Waseem Shaukat, Diego Nobrega, Jeroen De Buck,,Milk Quality

14/02/2024

Point-of-Cow used directly in the veterinary office as an alternative to being used at the 'farm level'.
This only shows to tell how versatile the platform is, and that individual needs will require individual solutions :-)

10/10/2023

Troels Løwig Larsen er en af de mest vidende kvægdyrlæger, jeg kender til, og nu kan du hyre ham ind til at kigge på din besætning, så fat knoglen og tag fat i ham før din nabo :-)

At medvirke til at der også i fremtiden er en kvægproduktion i Danmark, som bidrager positivt til samfundet, dyrevelfærden, miljøet og klimaet.

21/06/2023

I landbruget starter man uddannelsen så tidligt som muligt

08/06/2023

E.coli: Find den i din besætning vha. 'Point-of-Cow' -testen.

(P.s. du kan i øvrigt adskille E.coli og Klebsiella fra hinanden via aflæsning af testen, selvom de begge er 'Gram-negative')