The Laboratory Network of AIA's affiliated entities, currently represented by 24 structures, is
an excellency in Italy for its broad network and gives prominence to raw milk
testing. The co-ordination and control of
analytic activity are insured by a Central Laboratory, the Standard Milk
Laboratory (LSL), that produces common reference materials for the calibration
of equipment, monitors for the application of analytical, operational methods,
and organises comparative analysis , ring test and pays special attention to
the training and the updating of analysts. The cornerstone of the Laboratory
Network activity consists of uniform analytics and operatives methods that are
summarised in documents called Management Procedures issued by the Laboratory
of Milk Standard.
These procedures, consistently under revision in order to comply with the
international standards (ICAR, ISO, FIL/IDF), they are approved by those
responsible of laboratory diagnostics and should be in compliance with the
production value checks rules. A well-organised activity that allowed the
breeders associations’ network of laboratories to achieve remarkable analytical
standars across the national territory.
This has brought values of reproducibility (measure of the dispersion of data) to
be below the standards of other analytical structures in relation to all the
samples of milk analysed.
