2016/01/01 by Françoise Monsallier, Monsallier, Françoise, Christelle Couzy +13
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Agriculture and Rural Development Research
paper · doi:10.15454/1.4622824699028472e12
PDO cheeses network has become aware that a change of strategy in animal husbandry is needed to preserve the microbial flora of interest in cheese-making and so to maintain the specificity of raw milk cheeses. To answer to their question, a program of research and development was set up, to supply the useful tools to the technicians who advice milk producers. In this context, an advisory method was tested in ten small dairies using raw milk representing six French PDO cheeses. On the basis of a sociological and technical analysis of the advisory methods tested, the involved actors exchanged about their own “know-how”, innovative tools have been designed (advisory method to a change of attitudes, analytical methods of the milk microbiota, diagnostic tool of breeding practices, applied training course) to make PDO cheeses actors aware and induce change in behaviour and breeding practices. New knowledge has been obtained on microorganisms potential reservoirs that can be sources of milk inoculation and on the influence of farming practices in particular through an experiment on post-milking hygiene in a controlled environment.