Deliverable D7 is out

D7 is the final deliverable from work package 3 'Redefinition of acceptable milk quality'. It is the 'Report on the possibilities of automatic milking systems to separate milk based on quality'.
In this deliverable the definition of abnormal milk (proposed in deliverable D6) is used to test the ability of different AMS models to detect and hence divert abnormal milk at time of milking. The current AMS models have systems to produce alarm lists of cows that should be checked for abnormalities of their milk, but these systems are not intended for automatic diversion of milk at present. This should be taken into account when evaluating the current systems. At present, the sensitivities and specificities are generally too low for automatic diversion of abnormal milk, and it seems that most of the models could benefit from application of more sophisticated algorithms. Furthermore recommendations are given on the methods of sampling and calculating specificity and sensitivity.

Message date: May 5, 2004