Water quality as one of the criteria for the comprehensive assessment of the safety of dairy products

Improving the safety of dairy products is one of the tasks of ensuring comprehensive food safety. The analysis of water from 4 systems of centralized domestic drinking water supply was carried out in terms of quality indicators, as well as the degree of water pollution with heavy metals and chloro-organic pesticides. It has been established that a significant level of water pollution with iron, lead and cadmium compounds exceeds the MPC by 10.6, 1.3 and 3.0, respectively, and organochlorine pesticides by 24.3 times. The research results show the need for additional water purification used in the production of dairy products.