Fee:
$12.00
Service:
Udder Health
Species:
Bovine
Caprine
Ovine
Days Tested:
M-F
Turnaround Time:
3-4 business days
Specimen Requirements:
Minimum of 6 ml milk each sample in a tube 1/4 to 3/4 full. Freeze samples immediately after collection. Samples must remain cold, preferably frozen. Refer to Best Practice: Milk Samples (link) for detailed instructions on how to collect a bulk milk sample.
Coolant:
Frozen gel packs
Keywords:
milk, bulk milk, bulk tank, bacteria count, differential
Shipping Container:
Sterile tube (2oz flip-top tubes preferred)
Location:
VDL
Submission Form:
Best Practices:
This test is used to quantify the number of bacteria that survive pasteurization temperatures, as an indicator of milk quality. It may be combined with other differential bacteria counts (See Milk Bacteria Troubleshooting Panel Option 1 and 2) ) to aid in investigation of elevated bulk milk bacteria counts.
Results reported: cfu/ml. Speciation available by request.