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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. PASTEURIZED MILK. Pasteurization of milk in the city milk plant is becoming very general, so that frequently the inspected and ordinary market milk are subjected to this process. In some instances this grade of milk wholly displaces the inspected milk. The advisability of adopting pasteurization instead of, and in addition to, close inspection as a means of improving our milk supply is a much-mooted question. The problem of quickly perfecting the milk supply of a city is a very difficult one. If stringent laws were enacted and immediately put into force (for example, a law prohibiting the sale of milk from dairies scoring under 80 per cent by the score card) there would be a milk famine in many cities. Hence it is evident that improvement at the place of production cannot be made in a day or a week; but when it does come, it will be a gradual evolution stimulated by education and public sentiment, and by paying the producer a higher price for his product. Therefore, quantities of milk produced under conditions of an unknown degree of sanitation must be admitted to the market. In order to improve the milk of doubtful character, it is recommended that all such milk be properly pasteurized. It is an undisputed fact that certified milk is better than pasteurized milk, but under existing conditions it is sometimes necessary to choose between pasteurized milk and no milk. Alleged Disadvantages Of Pasteurization. Those opposed to the use of pasteurized milk for city milk supply, find the following objections to this product: 1. It promotes carelessness and discourages efforts to produce clean milk. 2. It produces chemical changes in the milk which render it less easily digested. 3. Desirable lactic-acid bacteria are killed, while some undesir...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217826327 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217826326 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 200 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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