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The processing of raw milk for human consumption and its sale on the market requires compliance with certain quality standards. According to criteria of quality and food safety the Regulation of European Parliament and the council no. 853/2004, milk quality is influenced by many factors: lactation, fat, protein, lactose,total number of germs. Analysing some of these factors on samples collectedin October 2017 from four milk dispenser shows large variations for certain parameters that are outside the quality criteria. These values denotes that it iscomplies with hygiene conditions and raw milk is delivered to collection points uncontaminated which means lack of hygiene conditions and milk contamination. Following the analysis of the 40 samples the results obtained from the four dispensers studied, milk can be consumed sure from dispenser D2 and also with certain restrictions from the D3 dispenser. It is not recommended to consume milk from the D1 and D4 dispenser. The aim of this study is to determine whether milk marketed by dispensers under the conditions specific to this period is affected in terms of qualitative parameter analysis. The biological material study was represented analyzed by 40 samples of milk from fourcow milk dispensers functional located in this period in Cluj- Napoca city. These samples were collected at the same time period during 9- 20 October2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Milk quality is influenced by many factors: lactation, fat, protein, lactose, number of somatic cells. In order to process raw milk and compare with criteria of quality and food safety the Regulation of European Parliament and the council no. 853/2004. Analysing the total number of somatic cells (SCC) in the period July-August 2017 it is noted that in case of samples collected from first automatic milk dispenser exceed 2 times the maximum admissible values and the samples collected from second automatic milk dispenser are up to the maximum allowable values which show that milking hygiene and animal health are at the European standards required. Analysis of fat content for both cases indicates that it is within the standard values for cow's milk and fat variations for DM1 samples are very low at temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius which shows that high temperatures do not influence these parameters. The biological material study was represented analysed by 30 samples of milk from only two cow milk dispensers functional located in this period in Cluj-Napoca city. These samples were collected at the same time period during July-August months. The aim of present study is to determine whether milk marketed through dispensers under the high temperature conditions specific to this period is affected in terms of qualitative parameter analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heavy metals are important pollutants in the environment and can cause problems for the organisms, and the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the food chain can have adverse effects on human health. Regulations on the legally accepted amounts of heavy metals in food and in the body are very precise. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the level of heavy metals in cow milk from different localities in the Baia Mare area, considered a very polluted area. The physical-chemical parameters and heavy metals in milk were determined. The determination of heavy metals in milk was performed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry or ICP- MS used to identify and quantify the Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn elements. The highest concentrations of Pb were observed in samples collected in Firiza locality with an average value of (43.22±0.62) (µg/L) and the lowest concentrations are for the samples analyzed in Săcălăşeni (11.53±0.33) (mg/L) (µg/L). Cd in milk did not show very large variations between localities, so the lowest concentrations were recorded in Săcălăşeni (4.32±0.13) and the highest ones were observed in the locality Firiza (10.93±0.39) (µg/L). The highest concentrations were observed for the Zn in milk, with an interval between (2255.20±7.14) (µg/L) in Săcălăşeni and (3855.80±5.11) (µg/L) for the analyzed samples from Firiza. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quality analysis of 576 milk samples, obtained from the eight controls was performed in 2015 at the didactics UASVM farm from Cojocna. The biological material was represented by a total of 107 cows of Romanian spotted breed. On this population, individual and overall, were analized more aspects: productive performances and the main milk quality indicators such as fat, protein, lactose, pH, with particular reference to somatic cell counts as the main indicator of subclinical mastitis and the content of urea as the main indicator of nutritional aspects of the dairy cows. Following the official control of milk production, it was found that the milk production was on average 14.76 kg/day with a values of coefficient of variability between 31.05% and 40.47%, depending on the controls. The chemical characteristics of 576 samples showed considerable variations from one control to another. The amount of total fat and protein was found to be on average of 3.92% and 3.37% respectively. Regarding the content of urea and somatic cells, in all tested milk samples, the lowest value were found in the fifth control, with an average of 8.04±0.6 mg/dl (for urea) and 69.20±23.3 cell/mlx10³, while the highest were in the first control 19.37±0.7 mg/dl for urea, and 263.17±31.7 cell/mlx103 for the somatic cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study focussed on the Romanian spotted breed-Simmental type was aimed to evaluate the productive potential and some reproductive indices in the period 2013-2015 in Sona farm from Brasov county. The main indicators taken into consideration to analyze the whole herd were the following: milk yield, milk quality, age of first calving, mammary repose and calving interval. Analyzing milk production, this increased from 5439 kg in 2013 to 7400 kg in 2015, with an average for the entire period of 6324.33 kg with 4.23% fat and 3.42% protein. Also the fat and protein content have increased over this period, from 4.13 % for fat and 3.25 % for protein in 2013, to 4.34 % and 3.56 respectively in 2015. Analyzing the main indicators of reproduction for a period of three years it was found that calving interval is on average of 401 days and mammary repose is around of 54 days. It is clearly observed that during this period the production is increasing, so this shows that cows from the Sona farm records genetic progress regarding qualitative and quantitative milk production. The research demonstrated the productive potential and popularity of the Romanian spotted breed-Simmental type in Transylvania region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]