%0 Journal Article %T Sazonalidade como fator interferente na composi£¿£¿o f¨ªsico-qu¨ªmica e avalia£¿£¿o microbiol¨®gica de queijos coloniais %A Oliveira %A D.F. %A Bravo %A C.E.C. %A Tonial %A I.B. %J Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterin¨¢ria e Zootecnia %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais %R 10.1590/S0102-09352012000200040 %X the influence of seasonality on chemical composition of cheese produced during different seasons, was verified as well as their microbiological quality. a total of 32 samples of colonial cheeses produced in the southwestern paran¨¢ were analyzed. although the study could be thoroughly not completed, the chemical results showed significant variations (p <0.05) among the cheeses produced during the spring and summer seasons. the microbiological results indicated that 50%, 100% and 12.5% of the samples were contaminated with fecal coliforms, staphylococcus coagulase positive and salmonella spp., so at odds with the microbiological standards established by the legislation. %K colonial cheese %K seasonality %K physical-chemical analysis %K microbiological analysis. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-09352012000200040&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en