With more than 25 years of experience in seminal doses production, Semen Cardona has a professional recognition for its company task from the certification ISO-9001:2000 for the following concepts: Production and distribution of boar semen (maternal and finishing lines) assessment for centres of artificial insemination, seminal analysis (spermatic morph anomalies and acrosomia) and health controls (microbiologic analysis, serology and PCR) certification issued by Applus with the number EC-1665/04. Moreover, it was the first approved centre of artificial insemination in all Spain authorised for intercommunity commerce and exportation of its products to third countries.

So, these years of experience in the sector and all the quality certifications obtained by the company, support the service of technical support offered by Semen Cardona that has different assessment programmes for companies and/or individuals that want to interfere or improve the techniques of seminal doses production, from the training and manipulation of the boar, processes of dilution, seminal contrast, bottling, transport, doses manipulation in the farm and insemination protocols; to proposals of confection and design of new CIAs.

•Technical assessment programmes

CIA design

-Geographical valuation of new CIA location.
-Valuation of climatic parametres of the zone (temperature, damp, altitude, etc.)
-Valuation of the main external risk factors of CIA (Presence of nearby exploitations, way of farming trucks, wild fauna, etc.)
-Facilities design
1.Distribution of the several sections of the centre.
2.Definition and fine tuning of a specific allocation for boars.
3.Definition and fine tuning of a specific acclimatisation.
4.Definition and fine tuning of the specific lighting programme.
5.Definition and fine tuning of the biosafety protocol.

Technical assessment

-Definition and fine tuning of a laboratory of seminal doses production
-Definition and fine tuning of seminal contrast techniques.
-Definition and fine tuning of a normalised work protocol.
-Fine tuning of computer support of CIA (programme not included)

Staff formation

-Training period in Semen Cardona facilities
1.Animals manipulation
2.Boars training
3.Boars control
4.Warehouse environmental control
5.Warehouse cleaning
6.Semen collection techniques
7.seminal doses elaboration
8.Seminal doses contrast
9.CIA management
10.Biosafety protocol

-Implementation of acquired knowledge in the new CIA, with the assessment of Semen Cardona technicians.

Periodic monitoring of the CIA

-Displacement of a Semen Cardona technician to the CIA to valuate critical points.
-Results monitoring
-Periodic contrast of doses (amount to be determined)
-Offer of new knowledge and techniques in artificial insemination