Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXII, Issue 2
Written by Cătălin Emilian NISTOR, Vasile BĂCILĂ, Petrică AVRAM, Alexandru USTUROI, Bogdan-Vlad AVARVAREI
This paper presents the data of a study on the commercial quality of fresh cow's milk gathered from the North East area of Romania. Raw cow milk quality have been surveyed on samples collected from 126650 dairy cows (breeds Friesian, Simmental, Brown and Pinzgau) from 2458 farms from four counties in north eastern region of Romania. The samples were collected in sterilized plastic bottles of 50 ml preserved with bronopol 0.2 %, kept at refrigerating conditions till analysis. Analyses of raw milk included microbiological and physico-chemical parameters like bacterial count, somatic cell count, fat, protein, casein, lactose, urea, dry matter, density and pH. The results of the researches carried out indicated that all the raw milk collected fully complied with the en-force regulations concerning the physico-chemical quality features but for the safety hygienic ones, including the bacterial count (BC) and somatic cells count (SCC) the values found were higher.
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