Publications

IDF provides a permanent source of authoritative scientific and other information on a whole range of topics relevant to the dairy sector. IDF publications can be obtained via IDF National Committees or from IDF Head Office.

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Please find a list of our latest publications below

Bulletin of the IDF N° 492/ 2018: Total cost of ownership: An approach to support sustainable investments in the dairy processing and packaging industry

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is an analysis meant to determine all the lifetime costs that derive f...

Bulletin of the IDF N° 491/ 2018: Teat-cup and cluster removal strategies for cattle and small ruminants, Review and recommendations

Since the 1990s, when the technology was first introduced to Europe, automatic milking systems AMS (...

ISO 9233-2 I IDF 140-2: 2018 – Cheese, cheese rind and processed cheese – Determination of natamycin content – Part 2: High-performance liquid chromatographic method for cheese, cheese rind and processed cheese

This document specifies a method for the determination of natamycin mass fraction in cheese, cheese...

ISO 9233-1 I IDF 140-1: 2018 – Cheese, Cheese rind and processed cheese – Determination of natamycin content – Part 1: Molecular absorption spectrometric method for cheese rind

This document specifies a method for the determination in cheese rind of natamycin mass fraction of...

ISO 19662 I IDF 238: 2018 – Milk – Determination of fat content – Acido-butyrometric (Gerber method)

This document specifies a method, the acido-butyrometric or “Gerber”, for determining the fat co...

ISO 19660 I IDF 237: 2018 – Cream – Determination of fat content – Acido-butyrometric method

This document specifies an acidobutyrometric method for determining the fat content of cream. The re...

Bulletin of the IDF N° 490/ 2017: Quality Assurance Tools for Mid Infrared Spectrometry in Dairy Laboratories-Part1

The development and use of recombined milk samples has brought significant improvement in the overal...

Bulletin of the IDF N° 489/ 2017: The World Dairy Situation 2017

Electronic version includes all illustrations in Powerpoint slides and Excel tables enabling use of...

IDF Animal Health Report N° 11

The IDF Animal Health Report addresses key issues affecting the dairy sector. The report is a wor...

Bulletin of the IDF N° 488/ 2017: The IDF Guide on Biodiversity for the Dairy Sector

These guidelines aim at providing principles for identifying biodiversity indicators that can be use...

ISO/ TS 19046-2 I IDF/ RM 233-2: 2017 – Cheese – Determination of propionic acid level by chromatography – Part 2: Method by ion exchange chromatography

This document specifies a method for the determination of propionic acid level in cheese, using gas...

ISO/ TS 19046-1I IDF/ RM 233-1: 2017 – Cheese – Determination of propionic acid level by chromatography – Part 1: Method by gas chromatography

This document specifies a method for the determination of propionic acid level in cheese, using gas...