About DairyGuard®?

To ensure the highest standards of milk quality, producers are required to maintain low Somatic Cell Counts (SCC), indicating herd health, and low Total Plate Counts (TPC), indicating hygiene. High SCC indicates a potential infection but does not identify the specific bacteria. Similarly, fluctuating TPC—driven by various factors—makes it difficult to pinpoint the source of contamination. Current testing lacks specific pathogen identification, limiting actionable insights and often requiring follow-up testing, typically through sample culturing.

DairyGuard® is a molecular diagnostic solution, performing DNA analysis of a single milk sample to provide a comprehensive and accurate assessment, identifying a wide range of bacteria including those causing mastitis, contamination and spoilage. DairyGuard® provides several key advantages over traditional testing methods.

• Rapid Results:  Rapid turnaround enables timely decision-making and intervention.

• Accurate & Reliable:  Precise identification of specific pathogens and contaminants.

• Comprehensive Analysis:  Identifies a wide range of bacteria from a single sample.

• Early Detection:  Detects emerging issues before they escalate.

• Cost-effective:  Reduces cost associated with milk quality problems and unnecessary treatments.

DairyGuard's® advanced molecular testing offers a faster, more reliable solution for mastitis pathogen identification than traditional culture. Delivering accurate results in under 8 hours with high sensitivity and specificity (compared to culture's multi-day turnaround and 30-40% inconclusive results), DairyGuard® enables quicker, more informed treatment decisions.

Unlike other molecular products, which require multiple reactions and costly primer sets to identify a limited number of pathogens, DairyGuard® amplifies all microbes in a single reaction using universal primers and then identifies them on a microarray, offering comprehensive detection at a significantly lower cost than the equivalent multiple reactions needed for on other molecular platforms.