Food hygiene
Milk hygiene
Meat hygiene
Dr Pallavi Potdar
Associate Prof.,
Community Medicine
D.Y. Patil Medical College Kolhapur
• Why food hygiene is important?
• At all levels- production, handling,
distribution, serving
Milk hygiene
• Sources of infection/contamination of milk-
Milkborne diseases
• Infections of animals that can be transmitted
to man-
• Tuberculosis
• Brucellosis
• Streptococcal infection
• Staphylococcal poisoning
• Salmonellosis
• Q fever
• Anthrax
• Leptospirosis
• Cow pox
• Foot and mouth disease
• Typhoid, paratyphoid fever
• Cholera
• Shigellosis
• Viral hepatitis
How to prevent contamination of milk
• Clean surroundings
• Clean hands while milking
• Free from communicable diseases
• Immediate cooling of milk <10 deg.c
• Milking machines
Milking machine
Methylene blue reduction test
• For detection of micro organisms in milk
Pasteurization of milk
Pasteurization of milk
Pasteurization of milk
• Holder method
• HTST method
• UHT method
Tests of pasteurized milk
• Phosphatase test
• Standard plate count
• Coliform count
Meat hygiene
• Tapeworm infestations-Taenia solium, T.
saginata, Trichinella spirallis, fasciola hepatica
• Bacterial infections- anthrax, actinomycosis,
tuberculosis, food poisoning.
T. solium
Prevention
• Meat inspection- ante mortem and post
mortem.
Slaughter houses
• Location-
• Structure
• Disposal of waste
• Water supply
• Inspection of animals
• Storage of meat
• Transportation

Milk and meat hygiene