Studies on microbiological quality of milk and milk products sold in Allahabad city

Abstract

Milk is men’s indispensable food from infancy to old age. Microorganisms play a great role in spoilage of milk and milk products, being a Perishable commodity. Pasteurization of milk is used since early 1900s. Milk products like Khoa and Paneer are manufactured to a large extent from milk. The investigation was under taken to find out Micro flora in milk and milk products in 5 areas of Allahabad city (CHOWK, PHAPHAMAU, NAINI, JHUNSI and DHUMANGUNJ). The samples were tested for three Microbial Attributes, viz., Standard plate count, coliform count, and yeast and mould count. The area of CHOWK (T1) was found best among all the samples in view of all 3 parameters (SPC, Coliform, yeast and mould).