The first milk drawn from animals always contains microorganisms. The bacteria include lactic steptococci, coliform bacteria, psychotropic Gram-negative bacteria. The negative rods are Thermoduric which survive pasterization. Example: enterocci, and bacilli. Disease free dairy personal and utilization of sanitary equipment help in reducing the number of bacterial contaminats from external sources. For the production of different dairy products, it is required to have appropriate culture of microorganisms. The pure culture or mother culture or stock culture are available in lyophilized or freezedried form. Stock culture of desired of desired organisms may be maintained in the dairy cultures of lactic streptoci, Leuconostoc, and Lactobacillus are used. MICROORGANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH DAIRY PRODUCTS In the dairy, fermented milk are produced by inculating pasteurised milk with a known culture of microorganisms, sometimes referred to as a starter c