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MILK‐BORNE DISEASE: CONTROL AT THE SOURCE
Author(s) -
OSBORNE A. D.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0307.1965.tb00208.x
Subject(s) - udder , pasteurization , brucellosis , bovine tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , environmental health , disease , medicine , tuberculosis , biology , veterinary medicine , food science , mastitis , mycobacterium bovis , microbiology and biotechnology , mathematics , mycobacterium tuberculosis , pathology , geometry
SUMMARY As a result of the rapid progress in the control of the major infectious diseases in this country during the last few decades, conditions which at one time appeared of small importance have assumed much greater significance. Amongst these are some of the milk‐borne diseases. Even in this group however, the rapid extension of pasteurization in the last 20 years has considerably reduced the incidence of human infection contracted by the consumption of milk. At the same time the success of the scheme for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis has removed a major source of contamination arising within the udder. Of the more important conditions which remain, brucellosis is one which could be eradicated in a relatively short period, but salmonellosis and ‘Q’ fever are less easily dealt with. The problem of antibiotics in milk is at the moment under active consideration, but a completely satisfactory answer has not been obtained. The other conditions mentioned, including staphylococcosis, are either of extremely low incidence or subject to the influences of human neglect, in which case their control becomes very difficult.