ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF DAIRY SECTOR

Milk and dairy products are the main nutrients of human life and are found in many nutritional compositions. Therefore, the dairy industry holds a very important place in economically in our country and other countries. Milk and dairy products sector, to obtain as high quality milk used as food, to be maintained to keep the same characteristic, to be made into a variety of products with specific methods and procedures, and marketing so as to conform to human health, and covering technological and industrial activities related control in terms of food value and hygiene is an industry. The industry, that production quantities are quite high, is an industry cannot be ignored in terms of the waste, the volume of wastewater and industrial pollution. Therefore, in the dairy industry that is developing in parallel to public health and awareness of nutrition policies it constitutes waste causing environmental pollution during production. The environmental impact of the dairy industry that led to major environmental problems if not taken necessary measures should be discussed in detail and the implementation of measure should be determined in order to minimize or eliminate the environmental impacts. In addition, ıt is also necessary to determine methods to enable the use of this waste as an economic resource. In this paper, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process to keep to a minimum the environmental problems caused by the dairy industry has been examined and in this process be focused on the necessary measures