FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Occurrence and diversity of thermophilic sporeformers in French dairy powders BT AF Delaunay, Louis Cozien, Emeline Gehannin, Pierre Mouhali, Nassim Mace, Sabrina Postollec, Florence Leguerinel, Ivan Mathot, Anne-Gabrielle AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:2;5:2;6:2;7:1;8:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:; C1 Université de Brest, EA3882, Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Microbienne, UMT 19.03 ALTER'iX, IBSAM, 6 rue de l’Université, 29334, Quimper, France ADRIA Food Technology Institute, UMT 19.03 ALTER'iX, Z.A. de Creac’h Gwen, 29196, Quimper Cedex, France C2 UBO, FRANCE ADRIA, FRANCE IF 3.572 TC 4 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00654/76609/77758.pdf LA English DT Article AB This study reports the prevalence of sporeforming bacteria and contamination levels of a variety of powdered dairy products from cows’, ewes’, goats’ and mares’ milk produced in France. The concentration of mesophilic spores, thermophilic spores and highly heat-resistant thermophilic spores was assessed in 61 dairy powders. Thermophilic spore concentration was highly variable between powders, likely due to the different manufacturing processes used for transforming milk into dairy powders. The different stages of processing, particularly heat treatment close to 55 °C had a strong impact on selection of thermophilic bacteria contaminating dairy powders. For some products, thermophilic spore counts were as high as 5.89 log TSC g-1. Of the 313 thermophilic isolates selected, 93.3% belonged to the species Geobacillus stearothermophilus (43.5%), Bacillus licheniformis (30.0%) and Anoxybacillus flavithermus (19.8%). These results confirm the presence of the three majority species reported worldwide. PY 2021 PD FEB SO International Dairy Journal SN 0958-6946 PU Elsevier BV VL 113 UT 000594791600005 DI 10.1016/j.idairyj.2020.104889 ID 76609 ER EF