Food hygiene aspects of subclinical mastitis: technological aspect and the quality of different milk products

Abstract

Mastitis is one of the main diseases that causes large economic loss for farmers and can affect the quality of milk and dairy products. Mastitis is classified as clinical or subclinical depending on the presence of clinical signs or not. The main detection method for subclinical mastitis is with elevated SCC and the most common causative agents are bacteria, which can be environmental or contagious.