Milk Deliveries

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 14

Milk Deliveries

Sir, —It is 4 p.m., June 6, and I have just brought in our milk, labelled, I note, the 7th. A circular notice received recently assures us that the milk we now receive in the afternoon is exactly the same as that delivered the following morning until the recent change to afternoon delivery. Now the milk received this afternoon could, at the very latest, be only this morning's milking, and most probably the previous day’s. That means the milk we have been getting all through the summer is at least 24 hours old, probably 36 hours, and possibly older. Is it fair to fool people by stampir g the bottle with the date of delivery

rather than the date of production? Perhaps this is some of the “progress” of which we hear so much prattle these days. Oh, for the good old days when milk delivered was no more than 12 hours old, fresh, unpasteurised and “un-mucked-about.”—Yours, etc., JUST SMITHY. June 8, 1966. [Mr C. S. Bowie, the secretary of the Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board, replies: “The Food and Drug Regulations, 1946, state, inter alia: ‘After the 31st day of March, 1963, there shall also appear on such disc, cap, or sealing device on each bottle or container, the date in the month on which the bottle or conainer was filled with pasteurised milk or the date of the next succeeding day.’ The regulations are administered by the Department of Health.”]