The unhygienic handling practices in traditional camel milk production and in the informal camel milk trade represent serious obstacles for the introduction of modern dairy processing and marketing. The successful adaptation of pastoral subsistence production to the needs of an improved camel milk production and marketing system will depend, to a large extent, on safeguarding the milk quality a...

The study has addressed the issues associated with the alternative milk market chains and their implications on dairy farmers and traders. It has been conducted in Bihar, where modern milk market chains especially the milk co-operatives have grown significantly. The study has shown that in spite of growing presence of modern milk supply chains, the traditional milk supply chain is still dominan...

The effects of sheep alpha s1-casein CC, CD and DD genotypes on milk composition and cheese yield were studied. Processed bulk milk was collected from three groups of 15 ewes, carrying alpha s1-casein CC, CD and DD genotypes. CC milk was higher in casein content than CD or DD milk (+3.5 and +8.6% respectively), and had a higher protein: fat ratio and a smaller casein micelle diameter. In additi...

Cow's milk and hen's egg are ubiquitous in diets around the world and can be important sources of protein in young children. Unfortunately, milk and egg allergies are also some of the most common food allergies in childhood. Less allergenic forms of milk and egg due to heating and interactions with a food matrix, as in baked goods, are tolerated by a majority of milk- and egg-allergic patients....

Mastitis is by far the most common and most costly disease in milk production in industrialised countries. Costs are related to loss in milk quality, decreased milk production related to subclinical mastitis, discarded milk, replacement cows, cost of treatment and labour costs [1]. This disease is the most frequent reason for the use of antimicrobials in dairy cows [2]. It can be classified int...

BACKGROUD AND OBJECTIVE Ensuring safe human milk in the NICU is a complex process with many potential points for error, of which one of the most serious is administration of the wrong milk to the wrong infant. Our objective was to describe a quality improvement initiative that was associated with a reduction in human milk administration errors identified over a 6-year period in a typical, large...

Mastitis is characterized by physical, chemical and bacteriological changes in the milk and pathological changes in the glandular tissue of the udder and affects the quality and quantity of milk. The bacterial contamination of milk from the affected cows render it unfit for human consumption and provides a mechanism of spread of diseases like tuberculosis, sore-throat, Q-fever, brucellosis, lep...

BACKGROUND Industrialization and urbanization jeopardized infant nutrition during the 19th century. Cow's milk was produced in the cities or transported long distances under suspect conditions. Milk was contaminated with bacteria or adulterated with water, flour, chalk and other substances. When distilleries proliferated in the metropoles, their waste slop was fed to cows which then produced th...

We used in-line holography to create images of individual milk fat globules in diluted samples of milk. Analyzing these images with the exact Lorenz-Mie light scattering theory then yields the droplets' radii with nanometer resolution and their refractive indexes to within one part in a thousand. This procedure rapidly and directly characterizes both the quantity and quality of fat in milk.

In the complete assessment of the quality of milk and milk products, one of the important elements influencing the quality of the product is its storage stability e.g. shelf life. The quality is not a matter of choice, but impertive for survival on the market due to economical reasons as well as international regulations. Durability of a product is the consequence of the collection of milk, pro...