| The study was conducted in 32 dairy production systems (DPS) located in the city of Toledo-Paraná, and aimed at verifying the practices of hygiene applied during milking, as well as, observing their correlation with the total bacterial count (TBC), the somatic cell count (SCC) and the milk composition. We obtained 24 milk analyses in two years of collecting for each DPS. Along with the milk analysis, we collected some information from DPS by conducting a questionnaire where data were obtained, regarding to the practices of hygiene during milking. For the statistical analysis, we used the Pearson correlation, seeking to verify the correlation within the hygiene practices concerning to the milk composition, SCC and TBC. We found, by the average results... |
