Milk and Milk Products Technology

BACTOFUGATION

• Bactofugation is a process in which a specially designed hermetic centrifuge, the Bactofuge®, is used to separate bacteria, and especially the spores formed by specific bacteria strains, from milk.The RPM goes up to 60000
• Bactofugation has proved to be an efficient way of reducing the number of spores in milk, since their density is higher than that of milk.
• Bactofugation normally separates the milk into a fraction that is more or less free from bacteria, and a concentrate (bactofugate), which contains both spores and bacteria in general and amounts to up to 3 % of the feed to the Bactofuge.