Abstract

                                The trials were conducted by inoculating Bacillus cereus spores in low count milk and holding at 37°C and subjected to three treatments 1. Pasteurication, 2. Pasteurisation and boiling 3. Boiling of milk. The spore cells of 8, cereus grew in pasteurised milk upto two hours and thereafter formed spores after 8 hours The keeping quality of pasteurised milk and boiled milk was 8 hours whereas in the case of pasteurised and boiled milk it was only 6 hours The rate of proteolysis was found to be higher in the case of pasteurised and boiled milk. There was not much of change in the lipolysis in the treatments.

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