What's new

• The Animal Fibre Task Force prepared new Guidelines for the Alpaca:

  • Alpaca shearing management, fibre harvesting and grading

  • Standards and guidelines on methods of alpaca identification
    (9-April-2008)

   

• The Invitation and the Programme for the 4th meeting of ICAR Reference Laboratory Network that will be held during the 36th ICAR Session in Niagara Falls are available
  (2-April-2008)
   

• New pages on Transceivers conforming to ISO11784/11785 have been added
  -  Synchronising transceivers
  -  Non-synchronising transceivers
  (11 March 2008)
   

• The Genetic Analysis Working Group is proposing the following corrections to the ICAR Guidelines:

  • Rules and guidelines for accreditation of dna paternity testing in cattle

  • Annex 1 (Questionnaire Paternity testing in cattle)
    (11-March-2008)
     

• The following are the proposed corrections to the Guidelines on Section 10

  • Eartag Family
  • Performance evaluation and approval of official permanent identification devices
  • Performance evaluation and approval of official permanent identification devices
    Part 1: Conventional permanent plastic eartags (with or without machine readable printing)
  • Performance evaluation and approval of official permanent identification devices
    Part 2: Electronic permanent plastic eartags
    (with or without machine readable printing)
    (Feb-2008)
     

• The programme for the Special sessions on Artificial Insemination planned for 19 at Niagara Falls ICAR Session is available here
  (7-March-2008)

• ICAR Newsletter - December 2007 (24-Dc-2007)

• Minutes of the Meeting of the Working Group on Artificial Insemination & Other Relevant Technologies, held in Dublin, 22 August 2007
  (30-Dec-2007)

• Two new documents have been made available (PDF file):

  • ICAR's Approval Criteria for Laboratories Testing Conformance and Performance of Transponders and Transceivers as Defined in ISO Standard 24631.

  • Reasons contracting of test centre should remain with Registration Authority
    (15-Dec-2007)

• The corrections to the ICAR Recording Guidelines to be approved by the General Assembly in Niagara Falls, are available here (10-Dec-2007)
   

• New Working Groups have been added (Animal Fibre, Interbeef and Parentage Recording )(4-Dec-2007)
   

• Preliminary programme for 36th ICAR Session and Meeting (30-Nov-2007)
   

• List of the laboratories with ICAR accreditation for parenthood recording (21-Sept-2007)

• Acknowledgments by Hans-Gerhard Wagner (Secretary of APHCA) for Workshop animal identification and traceability (26-July-2007)

• The ICAR Newsletter July 2007 contains: A word from the President; ICAR General Assembly 2007; Provision of benefits to ICAR members; News on cornell patent; ICAR recent publications; Badi Besbes is a new member of the ICAR board; Certificate of quality; Special stamp; Awards; ICAR new members; 2007 Technical workshop , Verona, Italy, June 2007; From the ICAR governing and technical bodies; 36th ICAR biennial session (20-7-2007)

• The files presented at Verona Technical Meeting are available (3-June-2007)

• The last version of the  ICAR Guidelines, approved by the General Assembly held in Kuopio, Finland in June 2006 is  available (24-May-2007).

• The instructions (updated to May 2007) on how to perform the "Periodic checking of approved and provisionally approved meters. Hints for the sample taker and farmer" are avaialble (24-May-2007)

• Development of animal identification and recording systems for veterinary surveillance and livestock development in countries of Eastern Europe. Proceedings of the ICAR/FAO Seminar held in Kuopio, Finland, 6 June 2006, ICAR T.S. no.12. (30-April-2007)

• In 2007, ICAR organises a Technical meeting in Verona, in conjunction with the General Assembly.
  The meeting will be held from 30 May to 1 June 2007 (1-Apr-2007)

• The ICAR Statutes, approved by the General Assembly held in Kuopio Finland on 9 June 2006, are available in English (37 Kb), French (51 Kb) and German (49 Kb) (12-Feb-2007).

• ICAR Newsletter January 2007. It contains a Report from the 35th ICAR biennial session and Interbull meeting; General Assembly, Kuopio, Finland, 7 June 2006 and the President’s report; New ICAR Board; Decisions of the General Assembly; Amendments to the ICAR statutes; ICAR Awards ; News from ICAR Sub-Committees, Task Forces and Working Groups; A survey on milk recording strategies; New activities of ICAR; Next General Assembly (2007); Next Biennial 36th Session (2008). (30-Jan-2007)

• Updatings on Sub-Committee for Recording Devices, by Uffe Lauritsen. (30-Nov-2006)

• The Certificate of Quality is a new service offered by ICAR. The new Certificates will replace the ICAR Special Stamp which will be phased out by July 2009 (29-Oct-2006)

• The ICAR Board established the President's Award and the Distinguished Service Certificate (29-Oct-2006)

• A new site by ICAR: Patenting Sentinel and Action Service - PSAS (7-Aug-2006)

• The up-dated By-Laws approved in Kuopio by the General Assembly are now available only in English (18-July-2005)

• The transaltions into Russian of the FAO-ICAR Seminar (Kuopio, 6 June) are available (4-July-2006)

• The results of "Beef performance recording in 2004 (calves born in 2000)" are available (22-June-2006)

• The amendments to the Recording Guidelines are available for comments/approval by the ICAR Members (20-June-2006)

• The page of the Milk Testing Laboratories Working Group has been updated after the decision taken in Kuopio

• The results of the "Cow milk yearly enquiry" for the years 2003-2004 (20-June-2006)

• The PowerPoint files presented at the last 35th ICAR biennial session held in Kuopio, Finland (20-June-2006)

• The Report of the meeting of the WG on Goat Milk held in Sousse (Tunisia) in 2004, is now available (15-May-2006)

• The Animal Identification Sub-Committee has launched the "ICAR performance evaluation and approval procedure for official permanent identification devices (conventional permanent plastic eartags)"
  For more information, click here (15-May-2006)

• The on-line databases on "The yearly sheep milk enquiry" is now available (2-May-2006)

• The Conformation Recording Working Group, through David Hewitt, proposed some emendations to the Recording Guidelines, (Section 5: Conformation recording of dairy cattle) that will have to be adopted by the General Assembly in Kuopio (8-March-2006)

• The instructions on how to perform the "Periodic checking of approved and provisionally approved meters. Hints for the sample taker and farmer" are now available (9-Nov-2005)

• "The Business Plan for the Implementation of International Genetic Evaluation Services for Beef Breeds and Traits by Interbull", prepared by the Interbeef Task Force is now available (9-Nov-2005)

• Ollivier Leray submitted new information on List of analytical methods in milk recording (17-October-2005)

• Physiological and Technical Aspects of Machine Milking, Nitra, Slovak Rep., 26-28 April 2005, ICAR T.S. no. 10 (16-June-2005)

• ICAR Newsletter, May 2005

• The Benckmark service has been launched (18-April-2005)

• In order to facilitate and inform a candidate member for the organisation of a biennial session, two documents were prepared:

  • a GUIDELINES and a CHECK LIST document, and

  • the AGREEMENT between ICAR and the Local Organising Committee (30-November-2004).

• The Report of the Second meeting of ICAR Reference Laboratory Network was submitted by O. Leray (about 1.800 Kb) (20-09-2004).

• The site contains  the Countries/Member Organisations granted with the ICAR Special Stamp (23-June-2004).

• The PDF file containing the results of “Survey on recording and validation of bovine artificial insemination data” is now available on this web (6-May-2004).
   

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