Microbial safety status of Serro artisanal cheese produced in Brazil
| Autor: | Antônio Fernandes de Carvalho, Thaiza Teixeira de Almeida, Letícia Rocha Ferreira, Milimani Andretta, Ricardo Seiti Yamatogi, Luís Augusto Nero |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Veterinary medicine Food Safety Microbial safety Staphylococcus medicine.disease_cause Polymerase Chain Reaction Mycobacterium tuberculosis Enterotoxins Starter Listeria monocytogenes Cheese parasitic diseases Genotype Genetics medicine Animals biology Raw milk biology.organism_classification Milk Food Microbiology Cattle Animal Science and Zoology Brazil Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Dairy Science. 102:10790-10798 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0302 |
| DOI: | 10.3168/jds.2019-16967 |
| Popis: | Considering the growing consumption of artisanal foods worldwide, we aimed to evaluate the microbial safety of Serro artisanal cheese (SAC), produced in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. This cheese is produced with raw milk using 1 of 2 natural starter cultures: “pingo” and “rala.” A total of 53 SAC samples (pingo = 8; rala = 45) were obtained from different farmers and subjected to conventional and molecular assays to detect and enumerate Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS), diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Brucella abortus. The SAC samples were also subjected to an ELISA to detect classical staphylococcal enterotoxins (CSE: SEA, SEB, SEC, SED, SEE) and to PCR assays to detect staphylococcal enterotoxin-related genes (sea, seb, sec, sed, see). Coagulase-positive staphylococci isolates were obtained and tested by the same assays to detect their potential in CSE production and presence of CSE-related genes. None of the SAC samples showed any of the screened food-borne pathogens and zoonotic agents, and none showed the presence of CSE by phenotypic and genotypic approaches. Despite the absence of microbial hazards, mean counts of CPS in SAC samples were 5.2 log cfu/g (pingo starter) and 4.6 log cfu/g (rala starter), indicating poor hygiene practices during production. None of the tested CPS isolates (n = 116) produced CSE or presented CSE-related genes. Despite the relative microbial safety, hygienic conditions during SAC production must be improved to meet official guidelines established in Brazil. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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