The International Dairy Federation (IDF) is a science-based, non-profit private sector organisation which represents the interests of various stakeholders in dairy (including dairy farmers, dairy processing industries, dairy suppliers, academics and governments/food control authorities) at the international level. IDF aims to identify, elaborate and disseminate best practice at the international level to guide the dairy sector and to harmonise the work of its members on a variety of issues, includingstandards for methods of analysis and sampling (MAS).IDF and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) have a long-standing cooperation, dating back to 1963, relating to the development of standards for MAS for milk and milk products. The organisations used to publish MAS separately, which in most cases were technically equivalent. In 2001, IDF and ISO strengthened their cooperation when they agreed to publish joint international standards for analytical methods for the dairy sector.
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