Caracterização dos sistemas de produção de leite quanto à qualidade higiênico-sanitária produzidos na agricultura familiar no nordeste paraense.

Abstract

Milk is one of the most consumed and commercialized agricultural products in Brazil. This product has excellent nutritional characteristics for microbial proliferation, favoring the reduction in the quality of the dairy products produced. In addition to this productive highlight, milk is linked to family farming, which has low production due to inadequate or non-existent hygiene practices. The present study aimed to characterize the production, social and economic system of 20 family farmers in the Northeast of Para. In addition, to evaluate the influence of good hygienic practices on milking on the microbiological and physical-chemical quality of the milk in natura, in order to promote improvement in milk quality, generating a positive impact on the 20 properties through the adequacy of normative instruction 62 of MAPA, 2011. Evaluations were carried out based on a checklist and a semi-structured socioeconomic questionnaire in order to evaluate possible points of nonconformity in the properties and to characterize the main management techniques. Microbiological and physical-chemical analyzes were performed in raw milk before and after training in good practices, totaling 40 samples. In order to prove the influence of good practices on milk quality.