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ABSTRACTThis work was conducted in the Prata and Passagem cities, located in the Cariri and SertãoMédio microrregion, in semiarid of Paraíba. The objectives were to check the occurrence ofantimicrobials remainders in the milk of goats in nature; as well as the possible reasons whythe presence of such waste; track the major diseases in livestock and leading the use ofantimicrobials; addition to describe the therapy adopted in the treatment of diseases and adoptthe occurrence of waste as an indicator of practice management of health of the herds. Forthat, it was collected 240 samples of milk from 34 producers of these cities, in two periods inthe year of 2007, in the rainy and in the dried times. There were identified 14,16% of milksamples with antimicrobials waste through the qualitative test, Delvotest SP. The second phaseof the year, the dried one, showed a greater incidence of waste that the first, 24,16% and4,16% respectively. Then it continued with the study of these investigative positive samples,through visits to the properties and interview of the producers, guided by questionnaire, whichidentified, several flaws in the use of antimicrobials, management of the animals in treatmentand fate of the milk of these animals. Moreover, was identified, according to the knowledge ofproducers, clinical and epidemiological data, clinical mastitis in 100% of cases where it isused antimicrobials, this was caused by an outbreak of Contagious Agalactia characteristic ofSheep and Goats (60%), 30% caused by trauma in the mammary gland and 10% caused byunknown agents. In the treatment of these diseases were used various antimicrobial therapyand homeopath, which in turn, has proved most effective in treating animals with clinical signssuggestive of contagious agalactia. In interviews were also identified the most frequentdiseases in herd: 49% mastitis, 17% conjunctivitis, 11% caseous lymphadenitis, 9% arthritis,9% ectima contagious and 5% clostridiose. The presence of antimicrobials remainders in themilk of goat and the prevalence of diseases in herd are benefited by the deficiency ofknowledge, adoption of deficit management practices and / or lack of preventive controlmeasures.Keywords: Milk, goat, remainders, antimicrobials and mastitis.