Dairy Chemistry- ICAR JRF/SRF 2024

• Ante-Mortem Disease Diagnosis in Lairage:
• Clinical Lairage Examination:
• Performed within 24 hours of slaughter while animals are alive to detect systemic and zoonotic clinical infections.
• Rabies is readily diagnosed ante-mortem through acute neurological manifestations: behavioral aggressiveness, aimless wandering, excessive salivation, ataxia, abnormal bellowing, and hindquarter paralysis.
• Conversely, cirrhosis is diagnosed only post-mortem upon visceral liver slicing, and tuberculosis/brucellosis require serological testing or carcass lymph node examination.
• Conclusion: Rabies (Option 4).

Correct option: (4) Rabies

• Establishment of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB):
• Historical Milestone:
• Established in 1965 at Anand, Gujarat, by an Act of the Indian Parliament, with Dr. Verghese Kurien appointed as its founding Chairman.
• Envisioned by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri to replicate the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union ('Amul Model') nationwide.
• Launched Operation Flood (1970), propelling India to become the world's leading milk producer.
• Conclusion: 1965 (Option 3).

Correct option: (3) 1965

• Composition and Definition of Ghee:
• Clarified Butter Fat (Ghee):
• Manufactured by thermal clarification of butter or cream at $110 - 120^\circ\text{C}$ to evaporate moisture ($\lt 0.5\%$) and remove browned milk curd residue.
• Contains $\ge 99.5\%$ pure anhydrous milk fat, exhibiting granular texture and pleasant carmelized lactone/diacetyl aroma.
• Conclusion: Ghee (Option 3).

Correct option: (3) Ghee