PRESERVATIVES IN MILK.
(To the Editor.) | s ir. 1 read in the local Press that a : magistrate in the Auckland Court, after | condemning a milk vendor to a line of -C 2 and cost-, for adding boracic acid an a preservative to his white beverage, remarked that for a relatively short time a certain percentage (33 grains to the lb) of boracic acid lias been allowed in butter. It was not very injurious, but must not be put in milk: I wondered, after reading that, whether some of the important linns that have made a name for New Zealand butter on the London market could not sell for local consumption the same sort of butter, not con.taining any preservative at all. or at mot a minimum, say, ten grains oi bonu-ic acid. Such butter would keep well for ten or twelve days, or more in tiic winter, and. personally, I would make a point of seeing I hat my grocer | sold it to mc. and not the heavily- • preservntised article. -I am. etc., OLD CHUM. i [The amount of boracic. acid allowed Iby law to be need iv butter is 35 grains j per lb.—Kd. |
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 13
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