Raw Milk Supply

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28679, 1 September 1958, Page 3

Raw Milk Supply

Sir,—l see that your correspondent, Paul Maling, now suggests that the advocates of pasteurisation retard progress towards clean herds and a clean pure milk supply. This is the old, impudent claim that. the advocates of pasteurisation do not care whether milk is clean or dirty, infected or sterile, because pasteurisation will make it safe, anyhow. The truth is, pasteurisation has always and everywhere been most earnestly and eriergetically advocated by those who have worked hardest and most resourcefully for clean herds; clean dairies, and clean delivery systems. It is the antipasteurisers who, though they cry out for these things, arc really indifferent to them. Look at Paul Maling’s own letters, in which. he has repeatedly argued that the risks of' infection are such as milk itself has the property of counteracting and the healthy body will resist.—Yours, etc., CHEESEMONGER. August 29, 1958. [As this question has been referred to a petitions committee of the House of Representatives, this correspondence will be suspended briefly, pending the committee’s report at the end of the session. The discussion, may then be resumed, though it cannot be continued indefinitely.—Ed., “The Press.”]