Preface to the Technical Series
For more than 60 years, the Society of Dairy Technology (SDT) has sought to provide
education and training in the dairy field, disseminating knowledge and fostering personal development
through symposia, conferences, residential courses, publications, and its journal,
the International Journal of Dairy Technology (previously published as the Journal of the
Society of Dairy Technology).
In recent years, there have been significant advances in our understanding of milk systems,
probably the most complex natural food available to man. At the same time, improvements
in process technology have been accompanied by massive changes in the scale of many milk
processing operations, and the manufacture a wide range of dairy and other related products.
The Society has embarked on a project with Wiley-Blackwell to produce a technical
series of dairy-related books to provide an invaluable source of information for practicing
dairy scientists and technologists, covering the range from small enterprises to modern
large-scale operation. This ninth volume in the series, the second edition of Technology of
Cheesemaking under the joint editorship of Barry Law and Adnan Tamime, provides a timely
and comprehensive update on the principles and practices involved in cheese production. This
new edition also introduces chapters on milk for cheesemaking, packaging technology for
cheese and the prediction and control of the overall manufacturing process for hard cheeses.
This book provides a timely and valuable review of the progress being made in the greater
understanding of the factors contributing to cheesemaking and how this knowledge may be