NMC Documents and Reports
To help minimize cow mastitis around the world, NMC: The Global Milk Quality Organization provides several documents and reports that address mastitis prevention, mastitis treatment and mastitis control. Improving and maintaining a high level of udder health is crucial to animal health and quality milk production. Take a look at these reports that provide information related to cow mastitis, bacteriological culture, animal welfare, somatic cell count and teat dip use.
NMC Recommended Mastitis Control Program
NMC Position Statement on the Consumption of Raw Unpasteurized Milk (2009)
NMC Position Statement on Tail Docking of Dairy Cattle (2011)
NMC Board of Directors’ Report: Human Health Risks Associated with High Somatic Cell Count Milk
A Summary of Peer-Reviewed Publications on Efficacy of Premilking and Postmilking Teat Disinfectants Published Since 1980
2009 revision, published 2014
Glossary of Mastitis Terms from the NMC publication Current Concepts of Bovine Mastitis