During the last ten years, the Federation is giving greater emphasis on procuring quality milk from DCSs under the concept of “Quality Excellence from Cow to Consumer.” Many Clean Milk Production (CMP) initiatives have been implemented at all the stages of procurement, processing and marketing. Among these CMP initiatives, noteworthy initiative is the setting up of Community Milking Parlours in villages.

The KMF is forerunner to introduce this innovative technological initiative for bringing about revolutionary improvement in quality of milk collected in DCSs. This system has several advantages such as elimination of mastitis in milch animals and improvement of productivity. The milk from milking machines, collected through Automatic Computerized Milk Collection Units is chilled directly in Bulk Milk Coolers. This chilled raw milk, untouched and unadulterated by human hands, has very high microbiological quality, comparable to international standards. This high quality milk is being utilized for manufacturing high quality value added milk products, for both domestic as well as international markets.

• Training of milk producers on modern dairy husbandry practices and Clean Milk Production (CMP).
• Providing Stainless Steel utensils, antiseptic solutions for udder cleaning on pre and post milking, etc. to producers.
• Training to DCS staff and officers of the Unions on Clean Milk Production (CMP).
• Replacing Aluminium milk cans and collection vessels with Stainless Steel – 304.
• Posters, documentary films and booklets on Clean Milk Production (CMP).

1. Home

Central Quality Assurance Laboratory (CQAL), KMF is an analytical laboratory at KMF Premises, Bengaluru. CQAL follows a quality management system based on ISO 17025:2017 and accredited for the same from NABL vide certificate Number (TC-7084) to ensure operational integrity and confidentiality.

With state-of-the-art equipment and qualified technical staff, CQAL offers a range of reliable and accurate analytical services in the field of Milk and dairy products, food and animal feed at an affordable cost to Units and Unions of KMF.

CQAL continually assesses its analytical competence by participating in the Proficiency Test (PT) programmes conducted at national and international levels.

CQAL follows regular quality control programmes to verify the accuracy of analytical methodologies by including in-house quality checks at various steps of analysis.

Testing Methodologies followed at CQAL:

CQAL follows standard analytical methods acceptable by regulatory agencies, including those published by:

• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) – Bureau of Indian Standards - e-Sale (bsbedge.com)
• Food Safety and Standards of India (FSSAI) – FSSAI
• International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) – International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)
• Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) – AOAC INTERNATIONAL - In Food & Agriculture, We Set the Standard
• International Dairy Federation (IDF) – IDF - Global Dairy Expertise Since 1903 (fil-idf.org)
• CQAL also follows the methods published in National and International journals, after validation and verifications
• In-house validated and approved methods

2. Facilities:

Chemical Laboratory:

Laboratory has state-of-the-art equipment to cater to the needs of dairy, feed and food industry for quality analysis and regulatory compliance. Laboratory continuously endeavours to enhance analytical capacity and upgrades infrastructure to serve milk unions and units of KMF.

The major instruments of chemical laboratory are indicated as below:-

• Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS/MS)
• Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
• Induced Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
• Microwave digester
• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
• Automatic Fibre Analyser
• Automatic Fat Analyser
• Automatic Protein Analyser
• Multipurpose Ion Selective Electrode (ISE) Meter
• UV-Spectrophotometer
• Refractometer
• FTIR based Milk Analyser
• Centrifuge
• Electronic weighing balance
• Hot air oven
• Glassware Washer
• Ultrapure Water Purification System
• Muffle furnace
• Shaking Incubator
• Heating water bath
• Nitrogen Evaporator
• Refrigerated Centrifuge
• pH Meter
• Viscometer
• Vacuum Oven
• Turbidity Meter
• Conductivity Meter

Microbiological Laboratory

The microbiology laboratory of CQAL has all the instruments to meet the requirements of industry and regulatory bodies for testing microbial load and pathogens.

• Biosafety Cabinet
• Bacteria and Somatic Cell Analyser
• Incubators – Bacteriological & BOD
• Low Temperature Incubators
• Stability Chamber
• Water Bath
• Sample Dilutor
• Sample Homogeniser
• Laminar Air Flow Unit
• Microscope
• Pathogen Detection System
• Weighing Balance
• Autoclave

3 Accreditations:

CQAL has been accredited as per the ISO/IEC 17025 by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) in 2017 and the accreditation is renewed periodically for chemical testing.

NABL Certificate Scope of Accreditation

Quality & Compositional Parameters

• Total Ash
• Acid value of extracted fat
• Acidity as Oleic Acid
• Acidity as Lactic acid
• Acidity of extracted fat
• Alcoholic acidity
• Bulk density
• Viscosity
• Butyrorefractrometer reading
• Carbohydrates
• Concentration of syrup
• Crude Fiber
• Curd content
• Detection of Sesame Oil (Baudouin Test)
• Fat
• Free fatty acids
• Insolubility index
• Iodine value
• Lactose
• Leavening Index
• Milk Fat
• Moisture
• Over run
• Peroxide value
• pH
• Polenske value
• Protein
• Refractive index
• Reichert–Meissl value
• RM Value of extracted fat
• Salt
• Saponification value
• Solids Not Fat (SNF)
• Scorched Particles
• Starch
• Sterility (pH & acidity monitored upon 7 days incubation)
• Sucrose
• Syrup acidity
• Total Fat
• Total solids
• Turbidity
• Urea
• Wettability
• Creaming Index