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272 <strong>Thermal</strong> <strong>Food</strong> <strong>Processing</strong>: New Technologies and Quality Issues<br />

Human<br />

Coliforms<br />

Salmonella<br />

Enterococcus<br />

Staphylococcus<br />

Water<br />

Coliforms<br />

Pseudomonas<br />

Coryneforms<br />

Alcaligenes<br />

Feed<br />

Clostridium<br />

Listeria<br />

Bacillus<br />

Lactic acid bacteria<br />

Air<br />

Streptococci<br />

Micrococci<br />

Coryneforms<br />

Bacillus<br />

Yeasts and moulds<br />

Soil<br />

Clostridium<br />

Bacillus<br />

Pseudomonas<br />

Mycobacterium<br />

Yeasts and moulds<br />

Bedding<br />

Clostridium<br />

Bacillus<br />

Klebsiella<br />

Inside udder<br />

Streptococcus<br />

Micrococcus<br />

Corynebaterium<br />

Milking Machine<br />

Micrococcus<br />

Streptococci<br />

Bacillus<br />

Coliforms<br />

Faeces<br />

Escherichia coli<br />

Staphylococcus<br />

Listeria<br />

Mycobacterium<br />

Salmonella<br />

Outside udder and teats<br />

Micrococcus<br />

Staphylococcus<br />

Enterococcus<br />

Bacillus<br />

FIGURE 9.1 Sources of contamination of raw milk. (from Frank, J.F. and Hassan, A.N.,<br />

in Encyclopedia of Dairy Science, Roginski, H., Fuquay, J.W., and Fox, P.F., Eds., Academic<br />

Press, London, 2002, pp. 1786–1796. With permission.)<br />

generally not determinants of the shelf life of thermally treated milk and dairy<br />

products. 21,22 This is due to their low number in raw milk, their inability to grow<br />

at refrigeration temperatures, and their destruction by pasteurization.<br />

In exception to the above generalization, one potentially pathogenic bacterium<br />

in raw milk, B. cereus, can be a significant spoilage agent due to the ability of its<br />

spores to survive pasteurization and the ability of some strains to proliferate in<br />

pasteurized milk at refrigeration temperature. This bacterium can produce enzymes<br />

such as a proteinase, which hydrolyzes casein to produce an intensely bitter flavor,<br />

and phospholipase, which hydrolyzes the phospholipids of the milk fat globule<br />

membrane and causes instability of the fat emulsion. In unhomogenized milk, this<br />

can cause the defect known as bitty cream, but this is not observed in homogenized<br />

milk. B. cereus in milk seldom causes food poisoning, as the contaminated product<br />

develops a strong, unacceptable flavor, 14 and also because toxigenic strains are<br />

seldom psychrotrophic. In addition, large numbers of this bacterium are required<br />

to produce food poisoning; Ryser 23 reported that most outbreaks of B. cereus<br />

poisoning were caused by contamination levels of at least 10 6 cfu/g.<br />

In addition to B. cereus, other common types of spore-forming bacteria<br />

frequently present in raw milk are Bacillus licheniformis and Bacillus stearothermophilus,<br />

although the types and numbers of organisms vary considerably

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