Smallholder dairy processing in Zimbabwe: Hygienic practices during milking and the microbiological quality of the milk at the farm and on delivery

Food Control

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-47

  Gran, H M ^a   Mutukumira, A N ^b   Wetlesen, A ^a   Narvhus, J A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

E. coli; Hygiene practices; Milk handling; Milk quality; Smallholder dairying; Traditional dairy farming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DAIRY INDUSTRY; DAIRYING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD STORAGE; HYGIENE; KITCHEN; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ZIMBABWE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0008407589     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-7135(01)00082-2     Document Type: Article

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