RESEARCHES REGARDING COW-MILK’S QUALITY OBTAINED IN THREE FARMS FORM ALBA COUNTY

Abstract

In the selection process, along with the milk quantity obtained from an animal, an
important part is the milk quality, which has a big influence in the recalculated
milk quantity and also in its nutritive, energetic and biological value which the
milk contains both as food and as feed. Hygienic milk must fulfill two quality
indicators: total bacterial count (TBC) and somatic cell count (SCC) both
reffering to 1 ml of milk, extracted from the farmer’s milk tank. To fulfill the
sanitary and veterinary inspection and to be considered a high-quality
merchandise TBC must be situated at the maximum limit of 100,000/ml and SCC
must not rise above 400,000/ml. By evaluating the milk quality on the basis of
determining total bacterial count and somatic cell count, there were obtained very
good values of these two indicators. The total bacterial count (TBC) obtained in
the 33 examined samples had values between 10x1000 cfu/ml and 930x1000
cfu/ml, and the somatic cell count has been situated between the values of 13000
cells/ml and 2184000 cells/ml.