Comparative Quality Analysis of Milk Collected from Open Markets and Dairy Industries in Bangladesh

The present study was conducted to analysis the quality indicators of cow’s milk both in open market and processing industries in Bangladesh. Total 84 samples of fluid milk (15 samples from the open market of each district are Sirajganj, Pabna, Tangail and Dhaka and 6 samples of pasteurized milk of 4 different brands) were collected. The determination of physicochemical properties, microbial quality and presence of adulterant of all milk samples were carried out. Highest average milk fat was found in the raw milk collected from the open market at Dhaka district and in Brand 4 as 4.2% and 3.55% respectively. The lowest corrected lactometer reading (CLR) was found in Sirajganj as 25.5. A few of the pasteurized milk and open market milk were being adulterated by skimmed milk, sugar, added water and soda and alcohol respectively. Results pertaining to the enumeration of E.coli, Salmonella and V. Cholera exhibited 56.66%, 45% and 10% of samples of open market and 12.5%, 8.33% and 4.17% of samples of brands respectively. Due to unhygienic milking practice and very poor sanitary facilities, the highest amount of total plate count was 7.9 x 106 cfu/ml at Sirajganj district. Keywords: Milk quality, Pasteurization, Open market, Adulteration, Food safety DOI: 10.7176/FSQM/101-05 Publication date:September 30th 2020