Qualidade higienicossanitária de queijos de coalho e de manteiga produzidos em laticínio não inspecionado no Município de Igarapé Grande - MA

Abstract

In order to assess the sanitary hygienic conditions from coalho cheese and butter cheese produced from a dairy plant not inspected in the city of Igarapé Grande - MA, from December 2013 to April 2014 were analyzed forty (40) cheese samples, 20 (twenty) of coalho and twenty (20) of butter, to determine the most probable number of total coliforms, fecal coliforms and coagulase positive Staphylococcus search through official analytical methods number. As a result, five samples (25%) of which were unsatisfactory for total coliform and five (25%) for fecal coliform in the coalho cheese. For butter cheese, all samples were within the standards required by law. Regarding research Staphylococcus, 14 (70%) of the samples of coalho cheese and 10 (50%) of cheese butter had this micro-organism, and of these, four (20%) were classified as coagulase positive Staphylococcus, all of coalho cheese. These results indicate that sanitary hygienic conditions of production of the coalho cheese and butter are unsatisfactory, may represent a potential risk to consumers of this product.