Detection and enumeration of spore-forming bacteria in powdered dairy products

AJ McHugh, C Feehily, C Hill, PD Cotter - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
With the abolition of milk quotas in the European Union in 2015, several member states
including Ireland, Luxembourg, and Belgium have seen year on year bi-monthly milk …

[HTML][HTML] Communication mechanisms in extremophiles: exploring their existence and industrial applications

A Kaur, N Capalash, P Sharma - Microbiological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing plays important roles in the regulation of physiological and virulence
processes in most bacteria, but its role in extremophiles is largely unknown. Comparative …

The heat resistance and spoilage potential of aerobic mesophilic and thermophilic spore forming bacteria isolated from Chinese milk powders

FA Sadiq, Y Li, TJ Liu, S Flint, G Zhang, L Yuan… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The propensity for aerobic bacilli and allied genera to produce highly heat-resistant spores
and thermally stable spoilage enzymes are major bacteriological issues faced by the dairy …

Superheated steam effectively inactivates diverse microbial targets despite mediating effects from food matrices in bench-scale assessments

YS Rana, L Chen, VM Balasubramaniam… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sanitation in dry food processing environments is challenging due to the exclusion of water.
Superheated steam (SHS) is a novel sanitation technique that utilizes high temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Heat resistance of spores of 18 strains of Geobacillus stearothermophilus and impact of culturing conditions

MHJ Wells-Bennik, PWM Janssen, V Klaus… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, different methods were evaluated for enumeration of spores of G.
stearothermophilus, different sporulation methods were assessed for yields and wet heat …

Physico-chemical changes, microbiological properties, and storage shelf life of cow and goat milk from industrial high-pressure processing

SF Tan, NL Chin, TP Tee, SK Chooi - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Industrial high-pressure processing (HPP) was conducted on cow and goat milk in
comparison to conventional heat pasteurization. No significant changes were found in the …

Development of multi-species biofilm formed by thermophilic bacteria on stainless steel immerged in skimmed milk

N Wang, Y Jin, G He, L Yuan - Food Research International, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermophilic bacteria, such as Bacillus licheniformis, Geobacillus stearothermophilus,
Bacillus Subtilis and Anoxybacillus flavithermus, are detected frequently in milk powder …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial spore levels in bulk tank raw milk are influenced by environmental and cow hygiene factors

NH Martin, DJ Kent, RL Evanowski, TJZ Hrobuchak… - Journal of dairy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sporeforming bacteria are responsible for the spoilage of several dairy products including
fluid milk, cheese, and products manufactured using dried dairy powders as ingredients …

Characterization of functional sweetened condensed milk formulated with flavoring and sugar substitute

M Jouki, S Jafari, A Jouki… - Food Science & Nutrition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, the effect of sugar replacement and enrichment with cinnamon extract
(CE) on the physicochemical, functional, and organoleptic properties of sweetened …

[HTML][HTML] Psychrotolerant spore-former growth characterization for the development of a dairy spoilage predictive model

AJ Buehler, NH Martin, KJ Boor, M Wiedmann - Journal of dairy science, 2018 - Elsevier
Psychrotolerant spore-forming bacteria represent a major challenge regarding microbial
spoilage of fluid milk. These organisms can survive most conventional pasteurization …