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  • Title: Microbiological analysis and starter culture growth in retentates.
    Author: Premaratne RJ, Cousin MA.
    Journal: J Dairy Sci; 1991 Oct; 74(10):3284-92. PubMed ID: 1744259.
    Abstract:
    Pasteurized skim milk was concentrated by UF to 2-, 4-, and 5-fold. The retentates were evaluated for microbiological quality, heat treatments to inactivate microorganisms, and lactic acid bacterial starter culture activity. Aerobic mesophilic bacterial counts in raw milk decreased from an initial 1.4 x 10(6) to 3.9 x 10(2) cfu/ml after pasteurization. During UF, counts increased from 3.9 x 10(2) cfu/ml UF, counts increased from 3.9 x 10(2) cfu/ml in pasteurized milk to 1.4 x 10(3), 1.4 x 10(4), and 1.8 x 10(4) cfu/ml in 2-, 4- and 5-fold retentates, respectively. Psychrotrophic bacterial counts decreased from 9.9 x 10(5) cfu/ml in raw milk to 3.7 x 10(1) cfu/ml in pasteurized milk and gradually increased to 1.0 x 10(2), 2.5 x 10(2), and 1.4 x 10(3) cfu/ml in 2-, 4-, and 5-fold retentates, respectively. Thermophilic bacterial counts remained less than 10 cfu/ml in all samples. Skim milk and retentates inoculated with five starter cultures at 1% failed to decrease the pH below 4.6 in (2-, 4- and 5-fold). The 4- and 5-fold retentates inoculated with Lactococcus lactis spp. cremoris or Lactococcus lactis spp. lactis cultures were partially coagulated with pH greater than 5.6. In general, the pH of retentates remained higher than that of skim milk. Clotting of uninoculated samples was observed, and a spore-forming contaminant, tentatively characterized as Bacillus cereus and capable of clotting milk at a pH greater than 6, was isolated from the clotted samples.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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