Avaliação da coleta a granel de leite cru refrigerado de propriedades rurais da Região Oeste do Estado de Santa Catarina

Abstract

The search for quality on the dairy industry is constant, and the quality of raw materials is one of, or, the most important factor that affects the industry yield of this product. This work had the objective of evaluate the hygienic sanitary conditions and the compliance with current legislation of rural properties in the moment of collect the refrigerated raw milk. Were evaluated the conditions of storage places, the driver practices during milk collects, the chemical composition of 59 samples of raw milk, and SCC and SPC, that serve as indicator of milk quality produced in western state of Santa Catarina. 59% of samples presented SCC over 500 thousand sc/ml, and 20,34% presented standard plate count over 300 thousand UFC/ml. 88,14% of proprieties had expansion tank and 11,86 immersion tank. These, 24 producers (46,15%) with expansion tank didn’t attend the temperature of 4ºC before charging and 1, with immersion tank didn’t attend 7ºC. Of all properties, only 15.25% presented results according of specification for the storage of milk.