Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sunil Kumar ¹, S. P. Dahiya ¹, A. S. Yadav ¹, Sandeep Kumar ¹, Piyush Tomar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Milk and dairy products have significant importance to human nutrition during different stages of life but they can also act as vehicle for spread of various milk-borne diseases. India is a developing country and faces greater challenges m this aspect due to poor knowledge of processing or storage of dairy products which is responsible for transmission of a number of milk-borne zoonotic diseases viz., tuberculosis, brucellosis, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis etc. These diseases pose severe threat to human life and some of them could be fatal as well. There is a need to detect these pathogens which can transmit due to insufficient pasteurization of milk or milk products or through post-pasteurization contamination, m order to successfully avoid transmission of these diseases. Proper pasteurization, surveillance and pubHc awareness about milk borne zoonotic diseases can contribute significantly m reducing incidence of these diseases. This review highlights the important milk borne diseases and their remedy for control and prevention of these diseases.

Keywords

Brucellosis, Campylobacteriosis, Pasteurization, Salmonellosis, Tuberculosis.

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Sandeep Kumar ¹, S. P. Dahiya ¹, Sunil Kumar ¹, Ankit Magotra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Cow milk is a source of micro-nutrients required for good health. Now a days, a new debate on type of milk and its possible effect on human health has started, some people says that A2 milk is more beneficial for health than Al milk. As the milk and milk products are essential components of human diet, hence the present paper reviews studies conducted on type of milk and human health. Al allele is more frequent in exotic cattle while Indian breeds of cattle and buffaloes have A2 allele. Some of the studies on consumption pattern of Al/A2 beta-casein and human health have shown that A2 milk is beneficial for health; however, more detailed investigations are required to prove the hypothesis that Al milk could facilitate the immunological process that leads to health problems in humans.

Keywords

Human Health, Cow Milk, Micro-Nutrients.

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