materials and methods: a total of 285 commercial and traditional dairy products as well as 267 pasteurized and raw milk samples were collected during one year. the samples were studied by culturing and the positive-culture samples were investigated using pcr techniques. results: the results of culture showed that 52 (9.42%) and 28 (5.07%) of the total 552 milk and dairy samples were positive fo...

background: aflatoxin m1 (afm1) is a toxic compound that could be found in milk and dairy products. afm1 is the principle hydroxylated derivative of aflatoxin b1 (afb1), formed in liver and excreted into the milk in the mammary glands of both human and lactating animals that have been fed with afb1 contaminated diet. to the best of our knowledge, there is no report on stability of afm1 during p...

Awara is an unfermented soybean product (also known as soybean curd). It is a softcheese -like food produced by curding fresh hot soy milk with either a salt or an acid [1]. Awara also known as Tofu is an important dietary snack food throughout Asia. It is the most important and popular food product from soybean in Eastern and Southern Asian countries. It is also gaining an increasing popularit...

We established a novel murine model of pharyngeal candidiasis maintaining stable yeast population and local symptoms characteristic of pharyngeal thrush. The persistent Candida-infection was prolonged by inhalation of beclomethasone dipropionate corticosteroid. The severity of infection lesions was evaluated by determining viable cell number of Candia albicans and scores representing symptomati...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the yield, quality and unit production cost broccoli grown under green manure, vermicompost chemical fertilization. For purpose, plants were cultivated as follows: (i) Chemical fertilization (CF), (ii) Vermicompost (V), (iii) (VeV) in common vetch land a pre-plant (iv) Vetch (Ve) pre-plant. Curd yield (g plant−1), SPAD, vitamin C (mg 100 g−1), total ph...