MAP results

Friday 5 April 2002

At an open meeting on 23 January, 2002, to discuss the FSA draft strategy on control of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in milk, the FSA was asked to publish the times and temperatures at which pasteurisation was carried out and the Fluorophos results for all samples tested for MAP in the National Study on the Microbiological Quality and Heat Processing of Cows' Milk.

This information has now been made available and can be found in the tables attached below.

All milk samples collected for the survey were tested for phosphatase activity using the Aschafftenburg and Mullen method. In addition to this test, from December 1999 onwards, all samples sent to Queen's University, Belfast, for MAP testing were also tested using the Fluorophos method. The Fluorophos results in the attached table are therefore from milk tested between December 1999 and July 2000 and total 184 samples.

Please note that the MAP positive samples are highlighted in red and bold and can be found at the end of Table 1. Only two samples (i.e. Dairy 278 and 614) were tested using the Fluorophos method.

The final report on the above survey will be completed and published on this website in due course.