Novel approaches to improve the intrinsic microbiological safety of powdered infant milk formula

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1217-1244

  Kent, Robert M ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b,c   Hill, Colin ^b,c   Stanton, Catherine ^a,c   Paul Ross, R ^b,c  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cronobacter; Infant milk formula; Manufacturing strategies; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CASEIN; LACTOFERRIN; PEPTIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BOVINAE; CRONOBACTER; FOOD; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; IONIZING RADIATION; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; POWDERED FOOD; RADIATION STERILIZATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA; SOYBEAN; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; WHEY; BABY FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

SALMONELLA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEPTIDES; PREBIOTICS; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84923065037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7021217     Document Type: Review

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