Effects of Heat Treatment on the Nutritional Quality of Milk: II. Destruction of Microorganisms in Milk by Heat Treatment

Abstract

The second article of 'Effects of heat treatment on the nutritional quality of milk,' titled 'Destruction of microorganisms in milk by heat treatment' and authored by Dr. Seong Kwan Cha, who worked at the Korea Food Research Institute, covers the heat-stable microorganisms that exist in milk after pasteurization. The article focusses on the microbiological quality of raw milk and market milk following heat treatment, and is divided into four sub-topics: microbiological quality of raw milk, survey and measurement of microorganisms killed in raw milk, effect on psychrophilic and mesophilic microorganisms, and effect of heat treatment methods on thermoduric microorganisms. Bacillus spp. and Clostridium spp. are sporeforming gram-positive organisms commonly found in soil, vegetables, grains, and raw and pasteurized milk that can survive most food processing methods. Since spores cannot be inactivated by LTLT (low temperature long time) or HTST (high temperature short time) milk pasteurization methods, they are often responsible for food poisoning. However, UHT (ultra high temperature) processing completely kills the spores in raw milk by heating it to temperatures above 130℃ for a few seconds, and thus, the UHT method is popularly used for milk processing worldwide.

Pretreatment Method for DNA Barcoding to Analyze Gut Contents of Rotifers

“…Further sequencing analyses indicated that the bacteria detected were mainly Bacillus sp. which is known to be tolerant and survive various removal treatments such as disinfection [50] (Table 4). Bacillus sp., gram-positive bacterium, has commonly been found in soil and other environments.…”