MONITORING OF DAIRY FARMS TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL LEVEL OF POLLUTION OF ANIMAL FEED AND ANIMAL PRODUCTION.

The over pollution in recent years has meant that the relationship between animal husbandry and the environment to be approached in the light of a sustainable vision, focused on animal welfare and ensuring the safety of feed and animal production. Given the influence of pollutants on the environment, this paper aims to outline the relationship between animals and environmental pollution, for assessing the potential level of pollution of feed and animal production. Thus, by correlating with the data from the literature, for three dairy farms, located in different geographical areas, was assessed, by observation and questionnaires, the specificity of activities in relation to monitoring feed and milk pollution. Following the monitoring and application of the evaluation questionnaire, the particularities of each farm and also the specifics of feed within them were highlighted, obtaining important information which allowed the assessment of the relationship between environment and animal husbandry, all of this for evaluating the potential level of pollution of feed and animal production and for classification of the studied farms by expected level of pollution: S - low; M - medium; R - high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]