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IDF works closely with international organizations such as the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health
Organization (WHO), the FAO/WHO Joint Food Standards Programme (Codex
Alimentarius Commission and in particular the Codex Committee on Milk and
Milk Products), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and with many other
international bodies at governmental and non-governmental level.
 IDF - its unique role within Codex
IDF is the platform
for the international dairy sector to discuss standards for
international trade and to achieve consensus on a common approach to
issues discussed in
Codex. IDF contributes to the work of the Codex Committee on Milk
and Milk Products (CCMMP) by providing first drafts of standards and
contributing expert input throughout the development of new standards
until their final adoption. IDF also monitors all the other Codex
Committees that influence the dairy sector.
 
IDF
experts from all over the world are actively involved in Codex scientific
and technical discussions with potential impact on production, packaging,
marketing, consumption and trade prospects of dairy products.
Besides dairy commodity standards, IDF's current activities
in Codex are focused on:
- Food hygiene and safety
- Food labelling
- Food additives
- Methods of Analysis and Sampling
- Nutrition
- Residues of veterinary drugs and contaminants
- Export certification systems
To learn more about
Codex, please click
here.
 IDF and ISO
IDF and the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), started cooperating in
1963. IDF and ISO jointly develop and publish international standard
methods for sampling and analysis for milk and milk products. IDF is also
involved with ISO horizontal work on microbiological methods of analysis and
works with ISO on milking machines and other technical topics of common interest.
To learn more about ISO,
please click here.
 IDF and OIE
IDF and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) signed a formal agreement
of cooperation in May 2003.
The aim of the
partnership is to exchange knowledge and information on the dairy sector,
veterinary research into diseases of milk producing species and aspects of
animal health and zoonoses, animal welfare and food safety.
In the most recent years,
the OIE-IDF partnership has also considerably extended with the organization
of joint events and regular IDF participation at the annual OIE General
Sessions as well as several OIE expert meetings. In 2007 OIE appointed the
OIE Head of the Scientific and Technical Department as a permanent member to
the IDF Standing Committee on Animal Health and has also nominated an OIE
expert to the IDF Project Group on Animal Welfare in order to align the
on-going OIE work on animal welfare with the IDF work on developing a Guide
to Animal Welfare in Dairy Production.
Upon invitation by OIE,
IDF has participated in the most recent meetings of an OIE/FAO Drafting
Group on the Guide to Good Farming Practices and at meetings of the OIE
Permanent Working Group on Animal Welfare.
IDF entered into a
formal consultative status with FAO in 1957. Over the past decades, a very
close working relationship has been established in various fields of joint
interest. Indeed, FAO plays an active role in a number of IDF work areas
in the field of dairy farming, in particular good dairy farming practices,
animal health, dairy policies and economics and hygiene and safety.
Since 2005, the two
organizations have concerted their efforts which has resulted in several
joint publications including an FAO/IDF ‘Guide to
Good Dairy Farming Practice’, a FAO/IDF special
Issue titled: ‘Dairy Safety and Hygiene - A
farm-to-table approach for emerging and developed dairy countries’ ,
and the annual FAO/IDF Dairy Development
Newsletter.
For further information,
please see our publications section
and visit the FAO
website.Interested in getting more information on our relations with other international organizations, contact us!
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