PLUNKET SOCIETY

Grey River Argus, 24 November 1944, Page 2

PLUNKET SOCIETY

IMPORTANCE OF GOOD MILK WELLINGTON, November 23. The importance of milk a's a food was stressed a the Flunket Society’s annual conference, which has just concluded in Wellington. Attention was also drawn to the many ways in which this commodity can become contaminated in every stage of its journey from producer to consumer, and it was decided to urge universal insistence on adequate safeguards to preserve its purity. The first fact to be recognised by the public, it was stated, was that good, pure milk could come only from the farm and that no treatment could make bad milk good. For this reason Hie Society was firmly convinced ot the importance of an adequate supply of milk from tubercu-lin-tested cows.

The Society endorsed the ideal of the Milk Commission of an adequate supply of good milk meeting the requirements outlined in the Commission’? report until 100 per cent, satisfactory pasteurisation could be attained.

The Society decided to continue to urge mother? to take the T'ruby King measures to prevent infection from milk. It was stressed that some of so-called pasteurised milk did not comply with the regulations governing tlie sale of pasteurised milk; sometimes the milk was stale before it was pasteurised, sometimes dirty bottles were used, and sometimes pasteurised milk was sold loose and contaminated on the round For these reasons the Plunket Socie■ y again put forward the plea that, no milk should be sold as pas eunse milk unless it conformed with the regulations governing th e sJe of m U in the Food and Drugs Act. It was contended that the milk supply should be made the responsibility of some competent local authority and it was the duty of all branches of the Societv to see that such public authorities 7 were competent and that their carl Jf the liquid milk supply wa? as sound and satisfactory as_possible.