This book is a clear, start-to-finish guide to fluid milk—from how raw milk is collected and moved, to how it’s received, cleaned, kept safe, processed, packed, and delivered. It explains what happens at the plant (clarification, standardization, homogenization, pasteurization, UHT/ESL), how natural inhibitors like the lactoperoxidase system help short-term preservation, and how different market and special milks are made. With plain checklists and practical tips on cold-chain distribution and nutrition, it helps students and plant teams run safe, efficient, consumer-focused dairy operations

Dr Rameshwar Singh President IAUA (2023) Former Vice-Chancellor, Bihar Animal Sciences University, Patna 800014 India Prof. (Dr) Rameshwar Singh is a distinguished scientist known for his contribution in microbial culture collection, fermented milks and probiotics, dairy starter cultures, rumen fermentation and animal nutrition, and science communication and knowledge management. He is the Founder Vice Chancellor of Bihar Animal Sciences University w.e.f. 13 June 2017. He established the second campus of the university at Kishanganj, with two new colleges, College of Fisheries and College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and a new Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Jamui. He also established the Embryo Transfer Technology and In-vitro Fertilization Centre and Poultry Research and Training Centre at Patna. He led the progress of the new university with the institution of state fellowships for Masters and Ph. D students. The University has been noted for the development of its Master Plan and construction of new Campus at Patna (20,000 sq meter covered area, covred with state-of-the-art infrastructure), faculty recruitment from across different states of India, developing standards of quality education and research, and collaboration with several national and international organizations. Within a short period of time, the University has developed modern research facilities and laboratories by securing substantial funds through competitive grants from different funding agencies and world bank funded scheme on National Agricultural Higher Education Project leading to the accreditation of the university by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi for a period of five years. Dr Singh also led the Indian Agricultural Universities Association as President from September 2022 to March 2024. Earlier he also served as Treasurer and Vice president of IAUA. He also served as the member of Rastriya Kamdhenu Aayog, New Delhi. He is also member of the Governing Council of Agricultural Skill Council of India, founder fellow of National Academy of Dairy Sciences (India), founder fellow of Animal Nutrition Association of India, and founder patron of Society for the Promotion of Companion and Farm Animals, Patna. Before joining BASU, Patna, Dr Singh was Project Director at ICAR-Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi for five years (2012-2017).

His contribution in enhancing the visibility of ICAR and provisioning expansion and access of online of e-resources and online journals to ICAR institutions and state agricultural universities through Consortium of e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA); and awareness campaigns and trainings to promote the usage of CeRA are noteworthy. He coordinated ICAR support to strengthen the content and programmes of the newly established national TV Channel for Agriculture i.e. DD Kisan, for which Prasar Bharati bestowed special honour for his services on the occasion of first Annual function. He also showcased ICAR on important science exhibitions, strengthened ICAR publications and e-publication platform and successfully brought out the ASEAN-India Newsletter on Agriculture and Forestry along with other popular and research journals of ICAR. Earlier he also served as Registrar, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal (Deemed University), for around 09 years (2004-2012); Principal Scientist and Head Dairy Microbiology Division, NDRI, Karnal; Curator, National Collection of Dairy Cultures, NDRI Karnal; and In-charge Microbiology Section, Animal Nutrition Division, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar (1978-1995). Dr Rameshwar Singh graduated from Kurukshetra University and then did his Master’s degree in Dairy Microbiology from NDRI, Karnal. He joined Agricultural Research Services of ICAR as a Scientist and obtained Ph.D. from Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar in Microbiology. He served at prestigious institutions of ICAR i.e. IVRI Izatnagar for 17 years (1978-95), NDRI Karnal for 17 years (1995-2012) and ICAR Head Quarters at New Delhi for around 05 years (2012-2017).

Dr Singh has been an excellent teacher and researcher. He published more than 150 research papers in national and international journals and has very high citations. He also guided a large number of Master’s and Ph.D. scholars as major advisor. He established the National collection of Dairy Cultures at NDRI Karnal. He led ICAR Network project on Dairy Microbes and also steered the NDDB sponsored project on development of new microbial culture strains for fermented milks and technology for development of Direct Vat Starter Cultures. His freeze-dried starter culture strains and training of cooperative unions in the country heralded the manufacturing of dahi, lassi, cheese, yoghurt and other fermented milk products in the organised sector in India. Dr Singh represented India to participate in the World Dairy Congress held by International Dairy Federation at Shanghai in 2006. He also chaired several award committees, selection committees and technical committees of ICAR and many Universities. He has been recognised by National Academy of Dairy Sciences (India), Animal Nutrition Society of India, Indian Association of Veterinary Microbiologists and Specialist in infectious Diseases, Animal Nutrition Association, Agriculture Today Dairy Awards, Dr C M Singh Memorial Trust, and many other societies and institutions.

He has been on the Governing Body of NDRI, Karnal; DUVASU Mathura, and Research Council of NIFTEM, Sonipat; Academic Council of CIFE, Mumbai; and Kamdhenu University, Gandhinagar, and many other institutions. He has been chairman of Editorial Board of ICAR research journals and popular magazines and ASEAN-India Agriculture and Forestry Newsletter.

He also initiated online book manuscript processing system at DKMA, ICAR, New Delhi under which nearly eighty books were published during his tenure. Dr Singh has also travelled to reputed US universities, Utah State University, Logan; Cornell University, Ithaca (New York) and USDA Washington as Visiting Scientist. He also visited the University of Melbourne, Australia for mutual collaboration with the Bihar Animal Sciences University, Patna.

His footprints are engraved on the development path of the Bihar Animal Science University, which no time-sand will be able to cover.

1. Dairy Industry in India and Abroad: Status and Scenario
2. Collection and Transportation of Raw Milk
3. Reception and Pretreatment of Milk
4. Preservation of Raw Milk and Natural Inhibitors in Milk
5. Milk Homogenization
6. Thermal Processing and Pasteurization of Milk
7. UHT Processing of Milk
8. Sterilized and ESL Milk
9. Market Milk
10. Special Milks
11. Distribution Systems for Processed Fluid Milk
12. Nutritive value of Milk