A substrate was developed for measuring the milk clotting strength of rennet preparations on an automatic clot-timer . The substrate contained 8 percent pasteurized skim milk solids, 1 percent chloroform, 0.3 percent 200 bloom gelatin, 0.03 M added CaCl2 and was buffered to pH 6.6 with 0.057 M cacodylic acid and 0.042 M triethanolamine. The substrate was shelf-stable for 18 days at room temperatures. It was found that rennet preparations could be standardized to within 1 percent of each other, in terms of milk clotting strength, by use of the substrate on the automatic clot-timer. The method appears to have advantages over conventional rennet standardizing procedures. The research included studies on the effect of chloroform, nonfat dry milk and CaCl2 concentrations; heat and ionizing radiation on the substrate coagulation time.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-6171 |
| Date | 01 May 1973 |
| Creators | Stevens, Mark Brimhall |
| Publisher | DigitalCommons@USU |
| Source Sets | Utah State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
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