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Abstracts and Reviews of Dairy Literature

Microbiology and Microanalysis of Foods¹

ABSTRACT

"This volume is intended as a guide to the study of the microbiological decomposition changes in foods. It also presents a practical working basis for ascertaining the decomposition limits of foods suitable for human consumption, by means of the direct methods of micro-analysis."

The text of 260 pages is addressed to army dietitians and food examiners and in keeping with the limitations surrounding war conditions attention is directed almost exclusively toward information obtainable through the microscope. To those accustomed to elaborate laboratory equipment the character and variety of the information so obtainable is quite a revelation. Although we are no longer at war there is still need of methods for a rapid and accurate examination of foods and in this volume, which covers practically all kinds of foods, such methods are well arranged and well indexed.

While the question of methods has been well handled there will undoubtedly be much difference of opinion regarding the deductions drawn from examinations of food.

¹ By A. Schneider, P. Blakeston's Son & Co.