bacterium widely distributed in the soil and water. It is considered as an important enterotoxigenic food borne pathogen causing diarrhoeal and emetic food poisoning (Johnson, 1984; Kramer and Gilbert, 1989). Apart from gastroenteritis, B. cereus has a role in causing variety of non-gastro intestinal tract infections such as meningitis, endopthalmitis, endocarditis, periodontitis, osteomyelitis...

Traditional Sicilian cheese productions are carried out employing traditional wooden vats, called tina. Many studies have highlighted the beneficial role of wooden dairy equipment by contributing to enriching the milk microflora and improving the acidification processes. The present work was undertaken to evaluate the safety of the wooden vats used to coagulate milk. To this purpose, the differ...

OBJECTIVE The control of psychrotrophic bacteria causing milk spoilage and illness due to toxic compounds is an important issue in the dairy industry. In South Korea, Gangwon-do province is one of the coldest terrains in which eighty percent of the area is mountainous regions, and mainly plays an important role in the agriculture and dairy industries. The purposes of this study were to analyze ...

Introduction: Applying of a new indicator in food packaging can be effective to inform consumers about the freshness and quality of the products. Materials and Methods: In the current study, a new milk freshness label was investigated containing beetroot color and multi layers of polystyrene. The label characteristics were investigated by estimating color number, release test, and scanning ele...

-Electronic noses employs different types of electronic gas sensors that have partial specificity and an appropriate pattern recognition techniques capable of recognizing simple and complex odors. This paper focuses on use of electronic noses that use metal oxide gas sensors. In this paper,we present the quality assessment applications to food and beverages, that includes determination of fresh...

*Corresponding Author: Email: [email protected] Tel: +267-3650100; Fax: +267-3928753 The study was conducted to characterize the dairy value chain and to identify challenges and opportunities for development of the dairy industry in Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia. A total of nineteen key informants were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Moreover, secondary data were used to augmen...

Abstract Spore-forming bacteria form the most diverse and complex group of in terms their elimination from dairy chain, due to ability highly resistant spores. As ubiquitous microorganisms, spore-formers can enter product along milk-processing continuum different sources, subsequently cause spoilage various types products. The important classes spore-forming relevant industry are Bacilli Clostr...

Three typical contaminant bacteria, namely, Gluconobacter, Acetobacter, and Lactobacillus, were selected from fermented milk. The strong specific genes screened as target sequences, the droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) amplification system conditions optimized. We established a ddPCR detection method for three kinds of bacteria in milk then verified specificity sensitivity meth...