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The National Mastitis Council: A Global Organization for Mastitis Control and Milk Quality, 50 Years and Beyond

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The National Mastitis Council was founded in 1961 based on the desire of a forward-thinking group of individuals to bring together “all forces of organized agriculture in the United States to combat, through every practical device, the mastitis threat to the Nation’s health and food safety”. What started as a small organization focused on mastitis of dairy cattle in the United States has grown into a global organization for mastitis and milk quality. Over the last 50-plus years the concerted efforts of the membership have led to the synthesis and dissemination of a considerable body of knowledge regarding udder health, milk quality, and food safety which has improved dairy cattle health and well-being and farm productivity.

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Abbreviations

AABP:

American Association of Bovine Practitioners

AHI:

Animal Health Institute

AVMA:

American Veterinary Medical Association

BTSCC:

Bulk Tank Somatic Cell Count

FDA:

Food and Drug Administration

IAMFES:

International Association of Milk, Food, and Environmental Sanitarians

IDF:

International Dairy Federation

IMI:

Intramammary Infection

NCIMS:

National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments

NIRD:

National Institute for Research in Dairying

NMC:

National Mastitis Council

NMPF:

National Milk Producers Federation

NMRF:

National Mastitis Research Foundation

rBST:

Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin

SCC:

Somatic Cell Count

TCI:

Teat Club International

TTS:

Technology Transfer Session

USDA:

United States Department of Agriculture

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Acknowledgments

Much of the information presented in this manuscript was previously published in a booklet distributed by NMC to its membership in 2012 commemorating 50 years of the National Mastitis Council 1961–2011, and in documents available at http://www.nmconline.org.

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  1. Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, University of Missouri, 900 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

    John R. Middleton

  2. National Mastitis Council, Inc, Verona, WI, 53593, USA

    Anne Saeman

  3. Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    Larry K. Fox

  4. United States Department of Agriculture, National Animal Health Monitoring System, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA

    Jason Lombard

  5. Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, 44691, USA

    Joe S. Hogan & K. Larry Smith

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Middleton, J.R., Saeman, A., Fox, L.K. et al. The National Mastitis Council: A Global Organization for Mastitis Control and Milk Quality, 50 Years and Beyond. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia 19, 241–251 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10911-014-9328-6

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