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A survey of the microflora of raw and pasteurized milk and the sources of contamination in a milk processing plant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Tadesse Mahari  and
Berhanu A. Gashe
Tadesse Mahari
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Addis Ababa UniversityP.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Berhanu A. Gashe
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Addis Ababa UniversityP.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Summary

The microorganisms present in raw and pasteurized milk and the sources of contamination in the milk after it had arrived at the processing plant in Addis Ababa were studied. The lowest count registered for raw milk samples was 4 × 107 cfu/ml while the highest was 1 × 109 cfu/ml. Pasteurized milk had mesophilic aerobic counts of 7 × 105 cfu/ml as it left the pasteurizing unit, but the population increased 2- to 4-fold as a result of subsequent contamination. Of the total counts in raw milk, psychrophilic, thermoduric and thermophilic organisms made up 98·l, 1·4 and 0·5% respectively. In pasteurized milk, the amounts were 53·0, 39·5 and 7·5% respectively. Samples of milk pasteurized in the laboratory contained only 74·5% thermoduric and 25·5% thermophilic organisms. The isolates mostly belonged to the genera Bacillus, Streptococcus, Lactobacillus, Arthrobacter, Alcaligenes, Aeromonas and Pseudomonas. Cocci were more predominant than rod-shaped bacteria. Of the rod-shaped bacteria, 73% were Gram-negative. The utensils holding the raw and pasteurized milk and the plastic sheets used for bagging the pasteurized milk contributed unusually high numbers of bacteria which were either thermoduric or thermophilic. More isolates were obtained from the pasteurized than the raw milk. The keeping quality of the pasteurized milk was found to be much lower than that of the laboratory-pasteurized milk.

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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , May 1990 , pp. 233 - 238
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1990

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