With Regulation EC 853/04, the European Parliament and the Council laid down general rules for food business operators regarding the hygiene of foodstuffs. In particular, the regulation established ≤1.500.000 cfu/mL as the maximum-tolerated value for total bacterial count in raw goat milk. Moreover, in order to enhance the hygiene of dairy farms, the Sardinia Region has funded the F measure pro...

Magnusson, M. 2007. Bacillus cereus in the housing environment of dairy cows – Contamination routes, effect of teat-cleaning, and measures to improve hygiene in the cubicles and alleys. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 978-91-576-7341-1 The spore-forming bacterium Bacillus cereus can survive pasteurisation and thus a limiting factor for the shelf life of pasteurized milk. The occurre...

A one-year survey on clinical mastitis was conducted on 50 randomly selected commercial Flemish dairy herds to estimate the pathogen-specific incidence rate of clinical mastitis (IRCM). The severity of the cases and the potential associations with herd hygiene were studied. Participating producers sampled 845 cases and 692 dairy cows. The mean and median IRCM was estimated at 7.4 and 5.3 quarte...

The safety of milk and dairy products has always been one of the focuses of consumers, the food industry and regulatory agencies. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the food safety knowledge, attitudes and behavior of dairy plant workers. A cross-sectional survey was performed between May and August 2015 in three dairy plants in Beijing, northern China. A total of 194 dairy plan...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of clinical mastitis and somatic cell count (SCC) in six dairy herds which had different milking management and hygiene conditions. Four hundred thirty one Holstein Friesian cows were used in the study. The herds were classified to be good (Group 1, n=2), medium (Group 2, n=1) or bad (Group 3, n=3) according to milking management and hygiene...

This study investigated the association between dietary patterns and oral health in primary-school children from Damascus. A total of 504 children aged 6-12 years were enrolled and food frequency questionnaires were distributed to their guardians to evaluate food consumption. Dental health was evaluated by gingival index and presence of untreated dental caries. Consumption of food groups was lo...

OBJECTIVE To develop a simple system for scoring hygiene in dairy cattle and determine whether hygiene scores were associated with individual cow somatic cell scores (SCSs). DESIGN Observational study. ANIMALS 1,191 cows. PROCEDURE With the aid of a chart containing line drawings and descriptive text, hygiene scores ranging from 1 (clean) to 5 (dirty) were assigned for 5 body areas: tail ...

Detection of bacterial biofilm in uterine of repeat breeder dairy cows Mohammad Rahim Ahmadi, Abdollah Derakhshandeh, Sadegh Shirian, Yahya Daneshbod, Maryam AnsariLari, Saeid Nazifi Departments of Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Departments of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Department of Pathology, ...

Mastitis control is based upon adoption of preventive control strategies including good milking hygiene, the use of properly functioning milking equipment, provision of clean and dry housing areas, sound nutritional programs and proper identification and treatment of cows that are infected with subclinical and clinical mastitis. Worldwide, many dairy farmers have adopted these procedures and pr...