Mills et al. (1954) and Serjak et al. (1954) have reported the production of acrolein in distillery grain mashes and identified the causative organisms as lactobacilli. In addition to the lactobacilli described by these investigators, bacteria representing at least four other genera have been observed to produce acrolein: Bacillus amaracrylus
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