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Mickaël Boyer, Danone Nutricia Research
Mickaël Boyer, Danone Nutricia Research
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Advancing analytical microbiology in the dairy industry

23 June 2014 | By Mickaël Boyer and Jing Geng, Danone Nutricia Research

Today’s consumers have greater expectations than ever before regarding food. They expect not only safe, good quality and value-based products but also a real commitment of the food company toward social responsibility to the community, e.g. regarding nutritional education, sustainable development and adaptation to local geographical specifications. Those expectations are…

Dairy Processing (©‎ Nalentyn Volkov / Shutterstock.com)
Dairy Processing (©‎ Nalentyn Volkov / Shutterstock.com)
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Analytical methods a key focus for the dairy sector: IDF/ISO strategic plan

1 May 2014 | By Jaap Evers, Chair / Aurelie Dubois, IDF / Sophie More, ISO TC34/SC5 / Steve Holroyd, Chair Analytical Methods for Composition / Christian Baumgartner, Chair Analytical Methods for Additives & Contaminants / Jackie Page, Chair Analytical Methods for Processing Aids & Indicators / Jerome Combrisson, Former Chair Analytical Methods for Dairy Microorganisms / Barbara Gerten, Chair Harmonisation of Microbiological Methods / Silvia Orlandini, Chair Statistics and Automation, IDF/ISO Methods Standards Steering Group

The International Dairy Federation (IDF) is a science-based, non-profit private sector organisation which represents the interests of various stakeholders in dairy (including dairy farmers, dairy processing industries, dairy suppliers, academics and governments/food control authorities) at the international level. IDF aims to identify, elaborate and disseminate best practice at the international…

Wim J.M. Engels, Senior Project Manager and Scientist, NIZO food research
Wim J.M. Engels, Senior Project Manager and Scientist, NIZO food research
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Selection of starters for flavour formation in dairy foods

1 May 2014 | By Wim J.M. Engels, Senior Project Manager and Scientist, NIZO food research

Fermented low salt and low fat dairy foods, such as cheese and yoghurt, with great taste – this is possible with the rational design of improved, tailor-made industrial cultures with attractive flavour forming properties. Various tools and model systems for directed screening for flavour producing (starter) organisms are now available…

Victorian flood dairy cows
Victorian flood dairy cows
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Advanced microbial modelling techniques and risk-based management applied to aseptic-UHT process

5 March 2014 | By Laure Pujol and Jeanne-Marie Membré, INRA, UMR1014 Secalim and LUNAM Université, Oniris

Ultra High Temperature (UHT)-type products are ambient stable products, with a long shelf life (three to six months). Since they do not require any cold chain storage and can be consumed immediately, they are consumed extensively everywhere on the globe. They are defined as commercially sterile meaning that the product…

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Reducing fat and sodium in cheese

19 June 2013 | By Professor Donald J. McMahon, Western Dairy, Utah State University

Health regulators seek to reduce dietary fat intake and sodium intake by stipulating that cheeses should be made with lower fat and lower salt contents. However, both fat and salt contribute to cheese flavour, and fat especially impacts cheese appearance, texture and melting. Cheese is adversely affected by fat and…

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PAT in large-scale dairy processing

26 April 2013 | By Tristan Hunter, Technical Manager – Strategy, Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd

Open any magazine aimed at the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and there are regular references to Process Analytical Technology (PAT). There has been a significant focus on this area ever since publication of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report in 20041 encouraging the pharmaceutical industry to adopt PAT. Touted…

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New thoughts on a time-tested technology: milk pasteurisation

5 September 2012 | By Daina Ringus and Kathryn Boor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Science Department, Cornell University

The commercial adoption of milk pasteurisation was a major boon for urban public health in the first half of the 20th century. Before the widespread use of pasteurisation, the proliferation of diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis among humans was frequently linked with consumption of unpasteurised (raw) milk15. Pasteurisation…

milk in a bootle
milk in a bootle
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UHT processing of milk

4 July 2012 | By

Milk is a highly perishable food so to enable it to be stored and distributed for consumption without spoilage, and without being a health risk through growth of pathogenic bacteria, it is heat treated. The most common type of heat treatment in many parts of the world is pasteurisation, which…

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Understanding the present is key for the future in cheese processing

4 January 2012 | By Alan F. Wolfschoon-Pombo, Research Principal, Cheese and Dairy Technology, Kraft Foods

The food industry, and within it the dairy industry, is experiencing a noticeable change. Novel processing technologies and sustainability are trendy terms. Also, the following concepts are under the same trend: efficient use of raw materials (increased yield), less waste generation, reduction of product losses during manufacturing and overall food…