“…Although the consumption of dairy products made from raw milk is assumed to be a higher health risk for the potential occurrence of human pathogens, namely Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, Brucella melitensis, and Listeria monocytogenes (West, 2008), raw milk cheeses are generally perceived by consumers as food products with premium quality and higher flavour intensity (Colonna, Durham, & Meunier-Goddik, 2011;Muir, Banks, & Hunter, 1997). By contrast, pasteurised milk cheeses, which are generally produced by large-scale dairy industries with modern technologies under carefully controlled conditions, are claimed to have a less intense sensory profile Colonna et al, 2011;Muir et al, 1997), due to killing of much of the indigenous microbiota of the raw milk and replacement with a few selected starter strains (Psoni, Tzanetakis, & Litopoulou-Tzanetaki, 2006).…”