The STEC bacterium has been tested in milk sold through Swiss milk taps. Milk samples from more than 120 dairy farms were tested for STEC, among other things. STEC refers to the Shiga toxin-producing strains of E. coli. There are many …
Over the past month in the Netherlands, there have been tastings of dairy products: cheeses of all shapes and sizes, farm-fresh produce in a variety of flavours. There are both ‘farmhouse cheeses’ and ‘cheeses from the farm’. The former is …
Vorzugsmilch, RIP Vorzugsmilch, or raw milk suitable for young children, the milk that healed, milk that was used for milk cures, milk that was recommended by doctors, was first mentioned around 1900 and resulted in legislation (Vorzugsmilchgesetz) around 1930. In …
Take home message Making good cheese is a skill Gouda cheese is made from (raw) milk, rennet and starter culture. The starter culture converts milk sugar into lactic acid (= fermentation), while the rennet causes certain proteins (casein proteins) to …
Take home message Louis Pasteur and heating The concept of “pasteurisation” is attributed to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), although as early as the beginning of the 19th century, there were people who advocated heating milk to make it safe for consumption (Westhoff, 1978). Nowadays, milk is heated before consumption almost everywhere. The combination of temperature and time determines whether a product has been heated sufficiently to be classified as safe. For example, at start pasteurisation of milk was …
Without rules, you are powerless and lost, whether you are a human being, an animal or even the earth itself. Without agreements, you cannot trust other people. Suddenly changing agreements makes you an unreliable fellow human being or government. Rules …
Take home message In the past, milk was obtained from the farmer in the village, warm, every day if necessary. For people living in cities, this became a problem at the end of the 19th century. The distance to the city …
A wolf on the Dutch region ‘the Treek’ and a child who has been bitten. Imagine it was your child. A chicken egg from your own garden, where your chickens are free to roam, and your PFAS intake rises to …
In Bavaria, the Kompetenzzentrum für Ernährung (KErn) has published a series of articles in German on the pros and cons of milk consumption. In addition to animal welfare, the articles also discuss milk alternatives, health and raw milk. KErn has …
…however, rich in different genetic strains. Research into a tradtional starter culture for Gouda cheese, which was maintained through daily back-slopping, showed that only two bacterial species are present, namely Lactococcus lactis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides (Erkus et al., 2013). This …
