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Created by
Martin Wiedmann, last updated on Apr 26, 2011
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The field of "Dairy Food Safety" encompasses the farm-to-table aspects of assuring the safety of fluid milk and dairy products, including cheese, dairy powders, and dairy-based infant formulas. Foodborne pathogens of particular concern in the dairy food chain inlcude Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, E. coli O157, Staphylococcus aureus. For raw milk and rwa milk dairy products a large number of pathogens that cause disease in dairy animals (cattle, sheep, and goats) are alos of ocncerns (e.g., Brucella species, Mycobacterium bovis, Coxiella burnettii).