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Suitability of bronopol preservative treated milk for fatty acid determination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Gillian Butler  and
Sokratis Stergiadis
Gillian Butler*
Affiliation:
Nafferton Ecological Farming Group, Newcastle University
Sokratis Stergiadis
Affiliation:
Nafferton Ecological Farming Group, Newcastle University
*
*For correspondence; e-mail: gillian.butler@ncl.ac.uk
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Abstract

This work aimed to test if milk preserved with bronopol can be reliably used for fatty acid determination. Dairy production and milk quality are often monitored regularly to assess performance and contribute to selection indices. With evidence that fat composition can be influenced by selective breeding, there might be an interest in using samples collected in routine testing to evaluate individual cow fatty acid profiles, contributing to breeding indices. However, most recording services use a preservative such as bronopol and there is no published record if this influences subsequent fatty acid analysis. This study used milk from an oil seed supplementation trial, generating a wide range of milk fatty acid profiles, to test if the concentration of 31 individual fatty acids determined by GC were influenced by bronopol. Provided preserved samples are subsequently frozen, milk treated with bronopol can reliably be used to evaluate fatty acid composition in most cases; however bronopol might influence a few long-chain fatty acids present in relatively low concentrations. This is one small step towards simplifying milk compositional analysis but it could ultimately streamline the inclusion of milk fat quality into breeding indices, either with a view to ‘healthier’ milk or potentially reducing methane output and the environmental impact of dairy production.

Keywords

milkfatty acidspreservativebronopol
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , May 2011 , pp. 220 - 225
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 2011

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