Dairy Foods Quiz 1

Milk is legally described as what?

the lacteal secretion, almost free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows.

What is the packaged description of milk?

if packaged milk shall have been pasteurized or ultra pasteurized, and shall not contain not less than 8.25% milk solids nonfat and not less than 3.25% milk fat, or percentage of fat as labeled. Milk may have been adjusted by separating part of the milk fat therefrom, or by adding thereto cream, concentrated milk, dry whole milk, skim milk, concentrated skim milk, or nonfat dry milk. Milk may be homogenized.

What is the second paragraph of the packaged description of milk?

any milk may be processed but must be labeled as to mammalian source

define pasteurization

the process of heating a liquid to a given temperature for a given period of time, to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms

The time/temperature combination required will not necessarily do what?

eliminate all microbial growth and is dependent upon solution viscosity, total solution solids, and the composition of those solid materials

what is ultrapasteurization

heating to a higher temperature for a much shorter time to eliminate all pathogens and 99.99% of the remaining thermoduric sporeformers

what does thermoduric mean?

heat resistant

what is a sporeformer

microorganisms with the ability to change between growth states