organisms in goat milk with the application of ascending
doses of gamma-irradiation. They observed
a decrease in the total bacteria count in raw goat
milk from 15 X lo3 to 14 X 10 after 0.75 M rad
irradiation. There was no marked change in titratable
acidity or pH in goat milk after exposure to different
doses of gamma-irradiation, but there was an effect
on the organoleptic properties of the milk. Goat milk
tasted slightly caramelized after heat treatment, but
became markedly oxidized on exposure to 0.75 M
rad and there were also detectable changes in the
colour (Grover et al., 1987).