Institut für Milchuntersuchung

Institut für Milchuntersuchung is a dairy industry service provider based in Verden, Germany selling testing & quality.

The Institut für Milchuntersuchung (IfM) is a milk testing laboratory in Verden, Germany, that emerged from regional raw milk laboratories in Zeven, Bremen/Seckenhausen and Göttingen. It serves dairy farmers and milk processors from the Harz to the North Sea and from Bremen to Saxony-Anhalt. Each year it analyses over 4.0 million samples from about 270,000 cows on 2,100 dairy farms for composition, germ and somatic cell counts, inhibitory substances, freezing point and other parameters. Results support legal quality controls, milk payment by dairies and cow performance testing. The laboratory also offers mastitis pathogen testing and microbiological product control for direct marketers. It is a partner of the Milchkontrollverband Elbe-Weser e.V., which runs milk recording in the region.