"In meeting rising demand, more intensive dairying systems face a range of challenges such as maintaining high standards of safety in the face of the continuing threat from zoonoses, whilst sustaining nutritional and sensory quality. At the same time farms need to become more ef…
What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption, understanding and impact of m…
What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption, understanding and impact of m…
What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption, understanding and impact of m…
What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption, understanding and impact of m…
This study explores how changes in the dairy industry have impacted the lives and social identities of small-scale dairy farms in the United States. Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, supported by a historical and literary review, I interviewed family farmers in three st…
Milk-based beverages
Milk-Based Beverages, Volume 9 in The Science of Beverages series, presents current status, developments, and technologies for researchers and developers to meet consumer demand and understand consumer trends toward healthy drinks. This resource takes a multidisciplinary approac…
This work contains forewords by Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa and Mogobe Ramose, Chairperson and Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of South Africa. "Health, Trade and Human Rights" shows how a policy of 'free' rather th…
Fundamentals of dairy chemistry
by Wong, Noble P., Jenness, Robert, Keeney, Mark, Marth, Elmer H.
Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1 ), the major hydroxylated metabolite of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1 ), is considered possibly carcinogenic. It is primarily excreted through the milk and urine of animals that have consumed aflatoxin B1 contaminated feed. Overall, brief exposure to aflatoxins from the …
Maternal colostral and milk immunity plays a major role in protection of highly vulnerable mammalian neonates against microbial pathogens. The colostral and lactogenic defenses are comprised of specific (immunoglobulin-associated) immunity and nonspecific, innate (non-immunoglob…
Background. Up to 40% of all mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) occurs via breastfeeding, yet in developing countries, infant formula may not be a safe option. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends heat-treated breast milk as one infa…
