In the context of sustainable consumption buying local produce could support environmentally friendly production from the local economy. Our study estimates the preference weights that local consumers assign to some milk attributes including local origin and the influence on choice of a local brand of milk, which is traded by a local cooperative of producers in Umbria (Italy). Several preferenc...

The usual method employed in determining the acidity of milk is to add a few drops of a solution of phenolphthalein as indicator to 100 cc. of milk and then titrate with 6 NaOH. By the use of this method it is found that 100 cc. of milk, when strictly fresh, will require the addition of 15 to 20 cc. of the alkali in order to produce a faint but permanent pink coloration. The acidity of fresh mi...

Brucella contaminates people with raw milk, raw dairy products and especially with cheese made from raw milk. This study has aimed to detect Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis in fresh cheese (Coban Cheese, 100-mold), traditional Afyon Tulum Cheese (Aged Skin Bag Cheese) (50-mold) and sheep-lamb tulum (50-mold) samples provided from Afyonkarahisar province. Conventional Culture Method has...

BACKGROUND AND AIM There are global public health and economic concerns on chemical residues in food of animal origin. The use of antibiotics in dairy cattle for the treatment of diseases such as mastitis has contributed to the presence of residues in dairy products. Penicillin residues as low as 1 ppb can lead to allergic reactions and shift of resistance patterns in microbial population as we...

The feeding of 17 babies weighing less than 1500 g was examined retrospectively. 12 babies started breast feeding at a mean weight of 1324 g and 10 of them were fully breast fed by a mean weight of 1600 g. Their weight gains were comparable with bottle-fed babies receiving expressed breast milk. Practical aspects of breast feeding were considered to be: a knowledgeable maternal and nursing atti...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding has a major impact on CMV epidemiology. Postnatal CMV reactivation's incidence during lactation is nearby the maternal seroprevalence. Although perinatal CMV infection has practically no consequences in term newborn, it may cause, in some cases, a severe symptomatic disease in preterm newborns. The aims of the present study are to evaluate the rate and clinical expressi...

− Visible and Near InfraRed (VIS-NIR) spectrometry from 400 to 1100 nm in addition to Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression or Principal Component Regression (PCR) is a very interesting method to measure several important parameters of non-homogenised fresh milk such as fat, lactose and total protein content. These parameters can be used to analyze the nutritional properties of milk and, conse...