Drugs found in Milk

cattleman123

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Location
devon
Dont milk myself but a friend has today had a load of milk returned due to the above,apparantly a whole tanker load of milk had to be dumped...whats could happen to him...they are worried to death...he is an old guy and its all getting a bit beyond them...i guess a random inspection and guess he will have to pay for the milk
 
I am aware of a case where the same thing happened, except the farm owner wasnt having any of it! He was damn sure he wasnt responsible for the contamination and
demanded that they identify the type of antibiotic. The vets backed him and the long and short of it was that after a protracted exchange of letters, the milk co. backed down as they couldnt prove the farmer was responsible. The moral - dont take their word for anything - if you think it wasnt you that was responsible, dig your heels in!
 
Dont milk myself but a friend has today had a load of milk returned due to the above,apparantly a whole tanker load of milk had to be dumped...whats could happen to him...they are worried to death...he is an old guy and its all getting a bit beyond them...i guess a random inspection and guess he will have to pay for the milk
From what i have learned about it it may not be your friends fault but the dairy might try to pin it too them !
ask the dairy concerned to identify the anti biotic - which they can then he can say weather he has used it .
but beware of milk quilility managers as they are a bit un trustworthy imo !!
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Tell him not to roll over!

Fonterra are bloody good but we've been down that road in the past - as luck would have it the driver in this case had had a slight mishap with cross contaminating samples and they covered the loss without troubling our neighbour's insurance, as a result of that mishap. Isn't supposed to happen and they were very "smiley" about it

My first thought was that they are looking for a way to kick the old boy off the round and what better way to start the landslide? But that hunch is probably way off.
 

Ducati899

Member
Location
north dorset
We had a AB fail come back on a NML milk sample,2 cows were being treated at the time but were kept separate and milked at the end into dump buckets,after 4 days hadn’t heard from milk buyer so rang them up and they said ours had failed but the tanker load was fine so it was used.
auto ID and computer showed that both cows had been through the parlour but hadn’t weighted any milk during that collections milkings,FSA rang and asked if we knew what had happened and we said “No” never heard another word.
All very odd
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Just as an addendum to the above ....

It will also be a requirement for the farmer (& potentially staff) to attend a MilkSure course after an AB failure
 

Martyn

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Location
South west
We had a fail a few years ago, out of the blue, we hadn't treated cows for several months and nothing calved in. Milk buyer insists it was our fault, claiming for artic value of milk, funny enough our neighbors also failed the same tanker load next pick after us. Then for some funny reason there wasn't enough milk sample to run second tests. ended up just loosing the value of our milk that pick up but lost all trust on that milk buyer. Now moved buyer.
 

farmerm

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Location
Shropshire
We had a fail a few years ago, out of the blue, we hadn't treated cows for several months and nothing calved in. Milk buyer insists it was our fault, claiming for artic value of milk, funny enough our neighbors also failed the same tanker load next pick after us. Then for some funny reason there wasn't enough milk sample to run second tests. ended up just loosing the value of our milk that pick up but lost all trust on that milk buyer. Now moved buyer.
As I read that are you saying they tried to claim for the full artic value twice, both from you and your Neighbour?
 

pellow

Member
Location
Newquay
The reason we are no longer milking is because our milk buyer claimed we had antibiotics in the milk, nothing treated but not impossible to milk a dry cow so we asked for more details, none were given, my father handed in notice, a month later the buyer admitted it wasn’t our fault, father had enough and sold the cows
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Sounds a bit to me like UK dairy processors have very poor standards and traceability. If they can't do something as simple as trace an inhibs fail, what else are they doing?

We still don't know whether the farmer in the OP did accidentally let a red cow in though.
 
The reason we are no longer milking is because our milk buyer claimed we had antibiotics in the milk, nothing treated but not impossible to milk a dry cow so we asked for more details, none were given, my father handed in notice, a month later the buyer admitted it wasn’t our fault, father had enough and sold the cows
when we had our taint issue last year our buyer sent samples off for a check for all the farms on a lost load of milk this was 3 days after collection our cc was 148 others were higher some were lower any way 2 months later when we were sent all the details of the incident it turned out one farm had a cell count of 4400 ! on that collection but we still got blamed for a taint and had to cough up for a lost load and its disposal :sick::banghead:
 
Location
southwest
With all these stories about re Processors being less than open and honest about things like AB fails and other sampling issues, has anyone ever seriously fought back? Got solicitors involved, threatened Court action etc, or is the fear of losing the Contract or other "reprisals" too big.
 

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