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• Aims of ICAR
• Historic information about milk recording
  – ICAR Founder Members
• Statutes and By-Laws
• Board composition
  – Restricted area for Board Member
• ICAR Members
  – Map of ICAR Members
  – Membership fee calculation
  – Why become a member and its benefits
  – How to apply to become a member
  – Restricted area to ICAR Member for data submission (Cow, sheep and goat on-line database and heads declaration for the fee)
  – Use of ICAR logo
  – Simulation model for fee calculation
• The Awards
• The Brian Wickham Young Person Exchange Program (BW YPEX).
• Contacts
• Protection of personal data and commitment to privacy

TECHNICAL BODIES

•  Sub-Committees
  • Animal Identification Sub-Committee
    • Info on the Animal Identification ID SC
    • Competent Authorities in ID
    • Restricted area to SC Members
    • Video on Validation PPT
    • Confidentiality of the reports
  • Interbull Sub-Committee
  • Milk Analysis SC
    • Documents produced by the MA SC
    • ExtraMIR initiative
  • Measuring, Recording and Sampling Devices Sub-Committee
    • Info on the Measuring, Recording and Sampling Device Sub-Committee
•  Working Groups
  • Animal Data Exchange
  • Artificial Insemination & Relevant Technologies
  • Breed Association
  • Certificate of Quality
  • Conformation Recording
  • Dairy Cattle Milk Recording
  • DNA
    • Guidelines to laboratories to grant the accreditation for SNPs and STRs based parentage testing in cattle
    • Accredited laboratories for parentage verification in cattle by SNPs and STRs
  • Feed and gas
  • Functional Traits
  • Global Reach
  • Interbeef
  • Sheep, goats and camelids
•  Task Forces
  • Sustainability
• Instructions for SCs, WGs, and TFs
• Composition of the SCs and WGs at May 2014 and acknowledgments

CERTIFICATIONS

Animal Identification 

• Certified devices
  • RFID with full certification
  • RFID with ISO 11784/11785
  • ICAR registry ISO 11784/11785
  • Conventional ear tags
  • Transceivers
• Certification procedures
  • Validation of certified devices
  • Code of conduct
  • Application forms for testing
  • Form for reporting a misuse of an ID device

Recording and sampling devices

• Recording Devices and milk meters certified by ICAR
• List of milk meters certified by ICAR
• List of jars certified by ICAR
• Automatic Milking Systems and Sampling Shuttles/Trays
• Steps to submit a recording and sampling device for ICAR testing and certification
• Application form for testing
• Test centres

DNA-based technology

• Guidelines for laboratories seeking accreditation for SNP-based genotyping and STR microsatellite-based parentage testing in cattle

  • List of accredited genetic laboratories for SNP based genotyping” and “STR based parentage testing” in cattle

• Certification and accreditation of DNA-based genetic laboratories

  • DNA Data interpretation centres

    • Two DNA-based service

      • List of accredited DNA Data Interpretation Centres

    • GenoEX SNP Exchange accreditation

      • ICAR 554 SNP list for parentage discovery

Milk Analysis

• Milk analysers, milk laboratories and Proficiency Tests
• Information and details about the new ICAR certification for milk analysers
  •  List of the ICAR certified milk analysers
• Information about the ICAR Proficiency Test
  • Procedures and information to join the ICAR Proficiency Test for milk laboratory and call for 2023
  • Results of the Proficiency Test (March 2023)
  • Results of the Proficiency Test (March 20202)

MEETINGS

• Toledo 2023
• Montreal 2022
• Virtual meeting 2021 (Leeuwarden)
• Prague 2019
• Analytica 2019 meeting (Rome)
• Auckland 2018
• Edinburgh 2017
• Puerto Varas 2016
• Krakow 2015
•  Pretoria 2015
•  Dublin 2014
• Moscow 2014
• Berlin 2014
• Aarhus 2013
• Cork 2012
• Bourg-en-Bresse 2011
• Santiago de Chile 2011
• Riga 2010
• Porec 2009
• Niagara, 2008
• Verona 2007
• Kuopio 2006
• Previous meetings files and downloadings
• Guidelines, Check List and Agreement for a Local Organising Committee of a Biennial Session
• Next ICAR Meeting

PUBLICATIONS

Recording Guidelines
–  Codes for the diseases of cows

Newsletters

Technical Series and Proceedings
–  ICAR Atlas of Claw Health and its translations

Milk Yearly Surveys
–  Beef Performance Recording Survey – Results in 2000

Biennial statistics on milk recording survey

Webinars

Other publications