Abstract
This paper has as main purpose the analyse and eval uation of raw milk hygienic quality in dairy farms, considered as a li nk in the frame of the milk commodity chain. This study also intend to assess the sanitary veter inary surveillance system of cow milk hygienic quality and to set up a set of advisories with a vi ew to improvement of milk and milk products quality and defending consumers health. The study was realized at the level of a milk commodity chain comprised of about 1.000 dairy farms (milk sources) with around 3.600 milk cows in January 2004 - December 2008 period. Analysis of milk microflora revealed the important pollution of raw milk with Staphylococcus sp. and Streptococcus sp. at the level of milk sources. Official control of milk quality expressed by TGC a nd SCC evaluation indicates for this specific milk commodity chain that only 39% of the investigated milk situates under the limit of 100.000 germs per milliliter and 52.5% under the limit of 4 00.000 somatic cells per milliliter.
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