Preliminary communication
Microbiological quality of home-made milk products sold on the market of Zagreb
Josip Živković
; Veterinarski fakultet, Heinzelova 55, 10000 Zagreb
Mirza Hadžiosmanović
Velibor Grbeša
Abstract
The article shows the results of the microbiological quality research relative to 109 samples of the most important home-made milk products sold by individual producers on Zagreb market. Microbiological requirements were no satisfiing in 87.5% of sour and sweet cream samples, 50% of butter, 47.6% of kajmak. 64.5% of soft and fresh cheeses, 52.4% of hard cheeses and 33.3% of cream cheeses samples - that is 57.8% of mentioned home-made milk products sold at the Dolac market in Zagreb. Among microbiologically unsatisfactory samples 16.5% contained coagulase-positive Staphylococci, 5.5% sulphoreducing Clostridia, 31.2% Escherichia coli, 16.5% Proteus species. Half of cream samples contained yeasts and 20.7% of butter and kajmak samples lipolytic Bacteria. The results indicate the fact that regulations did not take into consideration the circumstances in the individual sector of production.
Keywords
microbiological quality of home-made milk products; regulations relative to milk products
Hrčak ID:
95475
URI
Publication date:
9.9.1992.
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