Importância da contagem de células somáticas na avaliação da qualidade do leite.

Abstract

The quality of the milk produced in Brazil it is unsatisfactory, and a problem of difficult solution that depends on several factors, as the microbial load that it is inside of the mammary gland, of the sanity of the flock in relation to the mastitis and mainly of the hygiene of the it milks and of the used utensils. The livestock milk pan has as objective principal the productivity milk pan increase and consequently an improvement in the quality of the in the milky section, and one of the largest problems in relation to the handling is the increase of somatic cells. A mastitis it sub-practices medicine that it is of difficult diagnosis in the cows in nursing, it causes serious damages at industry level and of public health. This work has as objective to do an explanation on the count of somatic cells and your importance in the quality of the milk.