Qualidade do leite caprino em função da adoção de práticas higiênicas em ordenha

Abstract

The study aimed to characterize the profile of goat breeders family based in the central region of Rio Grande do Norte and milking hygiene practices adopted by associating them with the quality of goat milk produced by them. Therefore, interviews were conducted whose scripts had information about the socio-economic characteristics of producers and their production systems, and sampling of milk obtained during milking, which were analyzed for composition (fat, protein, lactose and total solids), total bacterial count and somatic cell count. Were also collected samples of water used in the production of milk (milker hygiene, animals and tools) for analysis of total coliforms and thermotolerant. Furthermore, we observed an effect of the adoption of milking practices on microbiological and nutritional quality of milk and practices examined, the largest contributor to the reduction of microorganisms was to coerce the milk. It was considered that there are very few technologies adopted by these producers in order to improve the quality of milk, because although their nutritional characteristics and the total bacterial count medium are mostly in line with the recommendation of the Normative Instruction No 37 / 2000, the presence of microorganisms in water and high somatic cell counts indicated deficiencies in the production process