Safer Dairy Products With Fewer Chemicals: New Research Breakthrough
Researchers at Umeå University have launched a major new project, backed by SEK 6 million, to tackle the persistent challenge of Bacillus spores in dairy plants — the hardy bacterial form that survives pasteurisation and conventional cleaning procedures. The research has two main goals: first, to map where spores attach in processing systems (tanks, pipes,…
Safer antimicrobials developed to prevent bovine mastitis
A research collaboration between Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), and MIT (USA) has developed a new class of antimicrobial compounds — oligoimidazolium carbon acids (OIMs) — that could revolutionize bovine mastitis prevention. Mastitis, a chronic udder infection, costs the global dairy industry an estimated US$22 billion annually…