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Sources Of Psychrophilic Bacteria In A Dairy Plant With An Emphasis On Air, Kotha Madhava Rao

Masters Theses

[From the Introduction]

The dairy industry generally recognizes that the psychrophilic bacteria are those bacteria which can grow in milk and milk by-products at refrigerated temperatures. Although psychrophiles have been recognized since the latter part of the last century, they were of relatively little importance in the dairy industry, as long as the milk and milk products were consumed within a reasonably short period of time after production or processing.

The presence of psychrophilic bacteria in milk has been attracting increasingly more wide spread attention since the early 1950's because of the introduction of bulk tanks on the …