Influence of brodifacoum and bromadiolone on growth of yoghurt cultures in milk

What is it about?

Rat poisons are chemicals that may be used inintentional contamination of milk. Undetected contamination of milk from a single farm may lead to potential health hazards in human consumers. The objective of this study was to determine the suitability of yoghurt culture as an indicator to detect rat poison in milk.

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Why is it important?

Our findings show that yoghurt culture can be used as a indicator organism to detect toxins in milk. This process can be modified to develop a fast, highly sensitive, environmentally safe and robust on farm screening technique to detect toxins in milk.