Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures
The Total Bacterial Count (TBC) and the Somatic Cells Count (SCC) in the milk are important indicators of its hygiene and quality. Hygienic conditions in barns, milking procedures, udder hygiene before, during and after milking, milking machine hygiene, as well as milk cooling procedures immediately...
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| author | Mihajlović Ljubiša Cincović Marko Nakov Dimitar Stanković Branislav Miočinović Jelena Hristov Slavča |
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| description | The Total Bacterial Count (TBC) and the Somatic Cells Count (SCC) in the milk are important indicators of its hygiene and quality. Hygienic conditions in barns, milking procedures, udder hygiene before, during and after milking, milking machine hygiene, as well as milk cooling procedures immediately after milking, have direct or indirect influences on milk hygiene indicators. Poor results of milk hygiene quality, when it comes to SCC and TBC, which are often seen in dairy cattle farms in our country, indicate numerous omissions before and during milking. To determine the possibility of improving milk hygiene quality, training of extension service professionals and farmers was conducted, corrective and preventive measures were determined and the achieved state was monitored on 128 dairy farms where SCC and TBC were observed at regular monthly intervals for 6 months. The results showed a continuous statistically very significant improvement in hygienic conditions in barns, milking procedures, udder hygiene before, during and after milking, milking machine hygiene, as well as milk cooling procedures. This has contributed to a statistically very significant improvement in the hygienic quality of milk, both in SCC and TBC indicators, continuously from month to month, with a visible improvement at the end related to the beginning of the study period. At the begining and the end of survey 19.7% and 50.0% of milk samples belong to 1st class of milk quality, respectively, indicating a significant improvement after implementation of corrective measurements. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2e43253ea76949a9a8a108122cea0a372022-12-22T02:07:45ZengSciendoActa Veterinaria1820-74482022-03-01721768610.2478/acve-2022-0006Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective MeasuresMihajlović Ljubiša0Cincović Marko1Nakov Dimitar2Stanković Branislav3Miočinović Jelena4Hristov Slavča5Group on Control of Incentives in Agriculture, Organic Farming and Animal Husbandry, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, Belgrade, Republic ofSerbiaUniversity of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Novi Sad, Republic ofSerbiaSs. Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, 16-ta Makedonska brigada 3, 1000 Skopje, Republic of North MacedoniaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Zemun-Belgrade, Republic ofSerbiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Food Technology, Zemun-Belgrade, Republic ofSerbiaUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Zemun-Belgrade, Republic ofSerbiaThe Total Bacterial Count (TBC) and the Somatic Cells Count (SCC) in the milk are important indicators of its hygiene and quality. Hygienic conditions in barns, milking procedures, udder hygiene before, during and after milking, milking machine hygiene, as well as milk cooling procedures immediately after milking, have direct or indirect influences on milk hygiene indicators. Poor results of milk hygiene quality, when it comes to SCC and TBC, which are often seen in dairy cattle farms in our country, indicate numerous omissions before and during milking. To determine the possibility of improving milk hygiene quality, training of extension service professionals and farmers was conducted, corrective and preventive measures were determined and the achieved state was monitored on 128 dairy farms where SCC and TBC were observed at regular monthly intervals for 6 months. The results showed a continuous statistically very significant improvement in hygienic conditions in barns, milking procedures, udder hygiene before, during and after milking, milking machine hygiene, as well as milk cooling procedures. This has contributed to a statistically very significant improvement in the hygienic quality of milk, both in SCC and TBC indicators, continuously from month to month, with a visible improvement at the end related to the beginning of the study period. At the begining and the end of survey 19.7% and 50.0% of milk samples belong to 1st class of milk quality, respectively, indicating a significant improvement after implementation of corrective measurements.https://doi.org/10.2478/acve-2022-0006corrective and preventive practiceshygiene qualitymilking practicethe somatic cells countthe total bacterial count |
| spellingShingle | Mihajlović Ljubiša Cincović Marko Nakov Dimitar Stanković Branislav Miočinović Jelena Hristov Slavča Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures Acta Veterinaria corrective and preventive practices hygiene quality milking practice the somatic cells count the total bacterial count |
| title | Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures |
| title_full | Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures |
| title_fullStr | Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures |
| title_short | Improvement of Hygiene Practices and Milk Hygiene Due to Systematic Implementation of Preventive and Corrective Measures |
| title_sort | improvement of hygiene practices and milk hygiene due to systematic implementation of preventive and corrective measures |
| topic | corrective and preventive practices hygiene quality milking practice the somatic cells count the total bacterial count |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/acve-2022-0006 |
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