Open AccessEvaluation of Microbiological and Physico-Chemical Quality of Raw Milk from Sibiu Dairy Farm Province of Romania
Author(s) -
Mihaela Adriana Tița,
Otto Ketney,
Ramona Iancu,
R. Muhammad
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of university of agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine cluj-napoca. agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1843-5386
pISSN - 1843-5246
DOI - 10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:6600
Subject(s) - raw milk , environmental science , raw material , quality (philosophy) , benchmarking , bulk tank , dry matter , mathematics , food science , agricultural science , toxicology , biology , zoology , business , physics , ecology , herd , quantum mechanics , marketing
Research aims at benchmarking the quality of raw milk supplied by four private farms in the county of Sibiu at a distance of about 25 km each for a period of three months (April, May, June 2010). Samples were subject to particularly microbiological measurements (total number of germ and somatic cells), physico-chemical (acidity, fat density, non-fat dry matter, protein and freezing point titre) by international standard methods. The results of the four farms show different variations of the parameters analyzed as follows: 55.5% of the samples fall in physico-chemical parameters of standard quality and 79% of the samples fall within the parameters of microbiological quality standard and within the limits provided by law