A process for the production of cheese is suggested, comprising or consisting of the following steps:(i) providing milk；(ii) coagulation of the milk while adding starter cultures and/or rennet material；(iii) separation of the coagulated milk of step (ii) into whey and curd；(iv) processing the whey obtained in step (iii) with fine curd particles contained therein into a stable suspension； and(v) further processing of the curd obtained in step (iii) into cheese,characterised in that(a) before the separation of whey and curd, the process contains a further step, wherein milk is subjected to filtration and/or bactofugation, obtaining a bacterial concentrate and a treated milk；(b) the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (a) is sterilised, and the sterilised bacterial concentrate is re-added to the treated milk； and(c) the suspension produced in step (iv) is either added to the bactofugate obtained in step (a), or is added to the sterilised bacterial concentrate obtained in step (b).
