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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Conservation of Excess Produce

Conservation of Excess Produce
The revolution in methods of farming including animal husbandry, dairy farming, fishery and aquaculture along with modern techniques of food conservation has now been rewarded by occasional seasonal excess food production.

This necessitates application of established and novel technologies for the preservation of this excess food.

The following ways have emerged for conserving such glut production for later use, by reconstitution of necessary storage of seeds after drying; insect disinfection by conventional methods or by irradiation an packaging; use of low temperature, of freezing of controlled gaseous atmosphere for storage of high moisture foods, and of dehydration of milk, fruit and vegetables by fluidized bed, roller, spray or freeze-drying methods; separation of cream and skim milk and stabilizing these separately; and bulk preservation two chemicals, by thermal processing, by lasting, pickling, by aseptic packaging or by use of low dose radiation.

This is the only logical way of using precious food material, with nutrients retained as far as possible.

The exposure of milk to excess microbial load before it is pasteurized is known to be reflected in the high pyruvate concentration. The use of skimmed milk powder and butter oil to reconstitute liquid milk may be traced to the high level of free ammonia.
Conservation of Excess Produce

Friday, December 12, 2008

Quality Characteristics of Raw Milk

Quality Characteristics of Raw Milk
Good raw milk quality is the basis for the production of high quality dairy products. The raw milk quality is controlled by the following characteristics:

Level of nutrient and reagents

Chemical physical characteristics

Level of total plate count and composition of the flora, e.g. level of spore formers, coliform, psychotrophs and thermosresistant microorganisms in the total plate count as well as level of somatic cells (cell count)

Presence or absence of pathogenic organisms such as those that cause tuberculosis, brucellosis or mastitis

Presence or absence of disease such as pus particles or toxins

Presence or absence of deleterious substances such as inhibitors or other foreign substances

Taste and flavor

Cleanliness of milk

Quality Characteristics of Raw Milk

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