HOMOGENISED MILK

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28321, 5 July 1957, Page 12

HOMOGENISED MILK

Trial Supply In

North

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 4.

Three hundred' Palmerston North residents will receive free milk for a 10-day period soon. The milk will be homogenised—treated milk with cream that does not rise to the top. Pamphlets will be included with the bottles and the consumers will be asked at the end of a trial period for their reactions.

The New Zealand Milk Board which operates a treatment plant at Palmerston North will conduct the experiment. Both the Auckland Milk Treatment Corporation and the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company in Auckland already produce homogenised milk. It is available on request. The two organisations sell 15,000 gallons a day. The Palmerston North milk treatment station provides homogenised milk to Army camps at Linton and Waiouru, local hotels and restaurants and, in limited amounts, to the general public. By homogenisation, butterfat globules are broken down and distributed evenly through the milk. There is no visible cream line.

Homogenised milk, which is also pasteurised, is popular overseas, especially in the United States where it is used extensively as a drink, in cooking and for coffee making.