Fungal Contamination in Cheese at Khartoum North Markets

Abstract

Yeasts and moulds present a hazardous health problem in food, allowing outgrowth of both spoilage and pathogenic bacteria. Moulds are capable of forming toxins and causing mycotoxicoses in man and animals are distributed all over the world. They grow, produce toxins and multiply on a wide variety of foods over wide ranges of pH, temperature and humidity.