Analysis of raw milk samples for industries, dairy companies, cooperatives, and farmers, through the Milk Quality Laboratories that integrate the Brazilian Network of Laboratories for Milk Quality Control (RBQL), by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (Mapa).

The results obtained serve different purposes, such as assessing the composition and hygienical quality of milk or the status of subclinical mastitis in the herd, as well as support to the identification of nutritional and handling issues to improve the management of production systems.

The laboratories perform milk sample analyses to determine the content of fat, protein, lactose, dry extract , defatted dry extract (DDE), somatic cell count (SCC) and total bacteria count (TBC) - Embrapa Dairy Cattle and Temperate Agriculture -, casein and urea nitrogen (only at Embrapa Dairy Cattle)

• ATTENTION: To submit samples, contact each Embrapa Unit to receive guidance about how to collect the samples and the procedure to send the material. 

Cost: VARIABLE, ON DEMAND

Response time: VARIABLE, ON DEMAND

Contacts:

Embrapa Temperate Agriculture (Milk Quality Laboratory - LABLEITE)

• +55 53 3275-8440 and +55 53 3275-8481
• cpact.lab.leite@embrapa.br

Embrapa Dairy Cattle (Milk Quality Laboratory - LQL)

• +55 32 3311-7456 or +55 32 99816-2630
• cnpgl.lableite@embrapa.br

Offered to farmers from all over the country, it determines the most suitable product to fight cattle tick in each property, which contributes to efficient control, savings in funds and labor, decceleration of the process of tick resistance, and lower environmental aggression.

ATTENTION: For guidance about collection and submission, access https://www.embrapa.br/gado-de-leite/infraestrutura/laboratorios/parasitologia

Cost: FREE

Response time: 35 - 40 days

Contacts:

Embrapa Dairy Cattle

• +55 32 3311-7454
• cnpgl.carrapato@embrapa.br

The Program of Quality Analysis of Soil Fertility Laboratories (PAQLF) has the main goal of verifying the quality of soil analysis determinations by laboratories in public and private institutions, in order to ensure the results generated by participating labs and used for the calculation of the amount of fertilization and liming that will be applied by farmers all over Brazil. Every year PAQLF supplies a kit with 12 soil samples to have participating laboratories determine soil fertility, micronutrients and physics.

The laboratories deemed to be of excellence obtain the right to use the PAQLF's Quality Seal for a year. Such seals are trackable and specific for programs of this nature, as they have security items that hinder their forgery or misuse.

In addition to quality control, PAQLF also offers technical consultancy for labs that have low score in the interlaboratorial exercise by training lab technicians and/or offering methodologies and any kind of information the institutions require.

ATTENTION: For more information about how an institution can join the program, access: https://www.embrapa.br/solos/paqlf

Cost: VARIABLE, ON DEMAND

Response time: VARIABLE, ON DEMAND

Contacts:

Embrapa Soils

• marcelo.saldanha@embrapa.br

Certified reference materials for lab analysis of mineral supplements, animal tissue, soils, rock phosphate, and forage plants. Certified reference materials for lab analysis of mineral supplements, animal tissue, soils, rock phosphate, and forage plants.

The following reference materials can be made available:

• Reference material for Brachiaria brizantha cv Marandú 
• Reference material for mineral supplements for cattle
• Soil Reference Material 
• Bovine Liver Reference Material
• Rock Phosphate Reference Material
• Fish tissue (tilapia) reference material
• Fish feed reference material

• ATTENTION: To request material, access https://www2.cppse.embrapa.br/materiaisdereferencia

Cost: VARIABLE, ON DEMAND

Response time: VARIABLE, ON DEMAND

Contacts:

Embrapa Southeastern Livestock

• +55 16 3411-5600