Incidence of moulds of dairy plant environment on Khoa

Abstract

Air and khoa samples from three organized dairy plants were collected at different production points namely vat section, package section and storage section in Khoa unit and analysed for the incidence of moulds. Penicillium citrinum was found to be predominantly present in all the three sections of khoa unit both in air (23.38%) and khoa samples (27.38%) respectively. The other moulds encountered were Geotrichum candidum, Mucor racemosus, Aspergillus niger, Syncephalastrum racemosum, Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizopus stolonifer, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Absidia corymbifera and Paecilomyces variotti.