Milk quality control laboratory opened in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Russia's largest milk quality control laboratory has opened in Yekaterinburg, OTR reports. Here they will be able to test the products of not only local producers, but also farmers from other regions of the country. The check is carried out on high-precision equipment according to 13 indicators. Among them - the content of protein, fat, urea and other data. In a year, specialists will be able to do up to 360,000 tests. Elena Stafeeva, executive director of the Union of Livestock Breeders of the Urals: “This enables us to have reliable data on selection control of milk quality. Well, on the plus side, genomic evaluation is also an additional resource that also helps us to have the maximum information to create the ideal cow.” The ...