“…Although the mesophilic starters in use today in both cheese and butter production are similar, research on butter cultures dominated the early years of dairy bacteriology with only 2 out of 28 pages concerned with cheese starters in the earliest review, in English, of starter cultures which was written by Knudsen in 1931 and none at all in the review by Hammer and Babel in 1943, who reviewed butter cultures. Although the mesophilic starters in use today in both cheese and butter production are similar, research on butter cultures dominated the early years of dairy bacteriology with only 2 out of 28 pages concerned with cheese starters in the earliest review, in English, of starter cultures which was written by Knudsen in 1931 and none at all in the review by Hammer and Babel in 1943, who reviewed butter cultures.…”