“…A high proportion of the moist milk cans, with visible milk film, contained >lo6 thermoduric bacteria, nearly 10% giving counts > 108/can. Several workers have drawn attention to the importance of unsatisfactorily washed milk cans as a source of large numbers of thermoduric micrococci, corynebacteria and aerobic sporeforming bacilli (McKenzie, Morrison & Lambert, 1946 ;Thomas, Jones, Beavan & Thomas, 1946;Galesloot, 1 9 5 1~;de Vleeschsuer & Naudts, 1953;George, Elson & Thomas, 1956;Leali, 1959a, b, c). They have also been implicated as a prominent source of Bacillus cereus spores by Billing & Cuthbert (1958), Donovan (1959) and Labots, Hup & Galesloot (1965).…”