Diagnóstico da qualidade microbiológica do leite de cabra in natura coletados em mini-usina no Município Paraibano de Monteiro.

Abstract

In the state of Paraiba quality of goat milk is empirically valued by local people who use preferred as a substitute to breast milk for the newborn and feeding of elderly persons who have difficulty digesting other foods, as well as in food people of different ages who have developed some kind of allergy to cow's milk. The government programs promoted increased production volume, and as a consequence there have been problems, especially microbial contaminants that compromise the maintenance of the quality of milk as a food and evidence of this can be a vehicle for disease-causing pathogens. Thus, based on the problems that can lead to the presence of mesophilic, 30/35°C coliforms, 45°C coliforms, this project aimed to investigate the presence of these in goat milk raw and pasteurized collected in mini-mill of Monteiro-PB to correct practices that endanger the microbiological quality of this invaluable food for humans. The results indicated a high level of contamination in fresh milk and chilled while pasteurized milk was within the limit allowed by law.