Microflora associated with the internal surfaces of rubber and stainless steel milk transfer pipeline
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Bacteriology
- Vol. 62 (4), 327-333
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.1987.tb04928.x
Abstract
Sterile sections of rubber and stainless steel milk transfer pipeline were inserted sequentially into a milking installation and soiled with fresh raw milk over a period of 5 d. The resultant adherent microbial population was removed and the generic composition of mesophilic and psychrotophic types was determined. In all cases Acinetobacter spp. were found to predominate (59.5-75.6%). The generic composition of the raw milk used to soil the milking unit (with inserted pipe section) was determined once during each 5-d soiling period. In general the milk was found to contain a fixed flora in which Gram-positive organisms predominated.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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