Buffalo milk must remain species-specific and product-specific. Codex requires the animal source to accompany the dairy designation, so buffalo milk cannot be silently merged with cow milk, mixed milk or a processed dairy product. A comparable lot needs buffalo species and herd or collection scope, raw, pasteurized, sterilized or ultra-high-temperature state, whole, standardized, toned, concentrated, frozen or dried form, fat, milk-solids-not-fat, microbiological and residue release basis, package and lot, production and expiry dates, temperature history, origin, quantity, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and information vintage.
Codex CXS 206-1999 requires the animal source to be declared with a milk designation. India's FSSAI all-India composition table sets buffalo milk minimums of 5.0 percent milk fat and 9.0 percent milk-solids-not-fat. EU Regulation 853/2004 applies a rolling plate-count criterion of no more than 1,500,000 per ml at 30°C to raw milk from species other than cows, tightened to 500,000 per ml when intended for products made without heat treatment. These are jurisdiction- and process-specific reference requirements, not test results for an untested lot and not current supply or price.
Codex defines milk as the normal mammary secretion of milking animals and requires words identifying the animal or animals immediately before or after the product designation. Atlas therefore retains buffalo as the declared source and does not infer buffalo content from geography, fat level, a generic milk label or a downstream cheese name. Mixed-species milk needs every source animal and its own compositional and traceability evidence.
Raw buffalo milk, pasteurized liquid milk, sterilized or ultra-high-temperature milk, standardized or toned milk, frozen milk, concentrate, powder, cream, butter, ghee, cheese and cultured products have different process histories, specifications, shelf lives and trade controls. A raw-milk farm result cannot certify a finished product, and a finished-product specification cannot be back-applied to the raw collection lot.
The FSSAI 5.0 percent fat and 9.0 percent milk-solids-not-fat figures apply to the named all-India buffalo-milk class. The EU 1,500,000 and 500,000 per ml values are rolling geometric-average plate-count criteria for raw milk from species other than cows, with the lower value tied to no-heat manufacture. Atlas records laboratory method, sampling frequency, jurisdiction, establishment, collection period and release decision instead of presenting one region's threshold as a universal lot result.
Species identity, minimum composition and hygiene criteria cannot establish actual fat and protein yield, microbiological release, antibiotic-residue status, collection radius, chilling performance, processing yield, package value, cold-chain cost or destination eligibility. A delivered comparison still needs current permitted observations for the exact form, tested lot, composition and release results, quantity, origin, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window, transport temperature and information vintage. Atlas withholds a physical estimate when those observations or usage rights are missing.
No. Codex requires the animal source to accompany the milk designation. Buffalo identity needs explicit species evidence, not an inference from origin, colour, fat level or product name.
No. They are minimum reference requirements for the named Indian class. A lot still needs representative sampling, a named method, actual results, laboratory and date.
No. It is a raw-milk plate-count criterion for species other than cows. Raw milk intended for manufacture without heat treatment uses the lower 500,000 per ml criterion, and finished products have separate controls.
Declared buffalo species, mixed-species status, raw or heat-treated state, liquid, concentrated, frozen, dried or finished-product form, fat, milk-solids-not-fat, protein where contracted, microbiological and residue release basis, package and lot, production and expiry dates, cold chain, quantity, origin, currency, Incoterm, destination, delivery window and evidence date.
Figures retain their source, period and review date. Corroboration is not promoted to primary evidence.