[rec.food.cooking] What's the pink spoilage on long-refrigerated foods?

dmr@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Daniel Rosenblum) (01/28/91)

Certain foods, if left too long in the refrigerator, will
develop a pink bloom on them.  Examples are cottage cheese,
sour cream, yogurt, and cooked white rice.  The color is just
about exactly the same as that of pink salmon, and against
the white background of the foods I've mentioned, it's
rather pretty (of course, I wouldn't eat such spoiled food).
I presume that this is caused by some sort of bacterium or
mold.  Can anyone tell me just what organism it is that's
causing this?

Please reply to me.  I'll post a summary if anyone's
interested.  Thanks in advance.

Daniel M. Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Quantitative Studies Area,
   Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University (Newark)

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