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in 1988 the sixth National Dairy Producers Congress decided to support the national drive to improve udder health, including the use of electronic particle counters. His main collaborator in this activity was I.M. Petzer.
Z.E. Kowalski, A.M. Durand and P.A. Korybut-Woroniecki contributed to other research projects including the determi- nation of potentially pathogenic organisms in animal feeds, the pathogenesis of mastitis and the role of defective teat cup liners in milking machines in inducing mastitis. By the end of the decade new staff included J.H. du Preez, P. Apps
A research assistant engaged in electronic counting of somatic cells in milk samples as an indication of mastitis
and S.R. Giddings and new research activities included the determination of antibiotic residues (in collaboration with D.N. Lloyd of Medunsa), the diagnosis and treatment of teat canal infections, improved harvesting of game meat (with Veary) and the computerization of the SCC procedures. A sophisticated chromatography laboratory was established, inter alia to de- termine whether recombinant bovine somatotropin, which
Cooling down cows to reduce heat stress and increase production
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The Onderstepoort abattoir which formed part of the Food Hygiene Section
Veterinary Public Health
1908-2008
Years