Quality Assessment of Milk & Milk Products

The present book aims to compile various chemical, nutritional, and microbiological analytical techniques related to handling milk and milk products. It has been divided into three sections, which cover methodologies applicable to raw milk reception to milk product analysis, as well as air, water, detergents, and dairy effluent. Section A focuses on various platform and laboratory tests used to assess the quality of raw and processed milk, including rapid tests, detection of adulterants and preservatives, and sampling techniques. Section B provides detailed analytical techniques for determining various quality parameters and attributes of different dairy products manufactured by the Indian Dairy Industry. Section C covers other tests applicable to the dairy industry for maintaining quality, including nutritional quality and hygiene, tests for dairy detergents and sanitizers, air and water quality for a dairy plant, and determination of melamine, aflatoxins, minerals, and vitamins (fat-soluble and water-soluble). In addition to these sections, the book also includes various food regulatory acts, such as the Food Safety Act 2006, hygiene code, ISO 9000 series, ISO 14000, and ISO 22000 quality management systems, PFA and BIS standards for different milk types, and MRL values for pesticides, heavy metals, and antibiotic substances. The book also provides a list of approved analytical labs for ready reference.