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Milk quality assessment : how to approach milk quality in southern countries ?

Faye B.. 2013. In : Alary Véronique (ed.), Galal Salah (ed.), Tourrand Jean-François (ed.). Proceedings report of the Workshop : Interdisciplinary Approach of Urban and Per?urban Traditional Dairy Chain : Project DAIRY. AIRD Young Teams 2012¿]2014. s.l. : s.n., 59 64. Workshop : Interdisciplinary Approach of Urban and Per-urban Traditional Dairy Chain, 2012-06-10/2012-06-14, Le Caire (Egypte).

The requirements for quality concern the same rights for the consumers in the South than in the North. However, the context of the southern countries as well in terms of climatic conditions as sociological or economic background could induce a difference in the approach of the quality management. The contexts of the South return to the need for setting up sometimes specific systems of control and for thinking of the obligation to establish standards according to the markets concerned. The characterization of the dairy products specific to the tropical countries (for example camel milk in the Middle-East and Central Asia) is a step to precisely tackle the question of the applicable standards in the southern countries of the South. Consequently, the quality becomes a social building effectively able to be based on a participative approach implying all the stakeholders of the dairy sector. Lastly, it is advisable to distinguish the involved market niches, international, local or regional, the southern countries knowing to adapt according to those although the milk market in the South is mainly local or regional..

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