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223. Bacteriological studies of canned milk products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Agnes A. Nichols
Agnes A. Nichols
Affiliation:
The Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Kirkhill, Ayr
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1. A survey of evaporated milk and canned cream samples from three condensed milk factories and from general sources has been undertaken to determine to what extent non-sterility occurred in commercial practice. In addition to the examination of sound samples many others have been tested which were obviously defective or which were associated with defective packs. 100% of the tins examined from general sources were sterile. The factory samples, especially those of canned cream, had a lower sterility percentage, although it appeared that this was associated with some special circumstance of operation and that a sterile pack should ordinarily be quite attainable.

2. An account is given of the methods used for sampling the can contents and for the recovery of bacteria from unsterile cans and their identification. The necessity for a large inoculum in such sampling is emphasized, since although the bacteria may survive for many months in the tins, they may be present in small numbers.

3. Data are presented regarding the types of defective samples encountered and the associated bacteriological flora. “Bloats” in evaporated milk and thin bitter and putrid cream were the two main causes of spoilage encountered.

4. By using the heat resistance of the organisms which were recovered from the cans as a basis of classification the. defects have been divided into two groups, namely (1) a mixed general flora which does not withstand high temperatures, and (2) a restricted heat resistant flora which is of the sporeforming type.

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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 1939 , pp. 231 - 249
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1939

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