PASTEURISATION IN DENMARK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8932, 26 June 1905, Page 2

PASTEURISATION IN DENMARK.

At the Dairy Conference, held ut PalmersUm North, Mr P. C. H. Peterson, of Eltham, dealt with, "Pasteurisation! 'of Skim. Milk in Denmark." Ha claimed that Pasteurisation indirectly laid tho foundation^ of Denmark's success, as- a butter-producing foundry.* It was found, however, that by heating the milk to 150 to 160 dcg. F., 1 ho spreading of diseases amongst the stock did not altogether stop, and further experiments showed that beating to 180deg. ga.v« a more satisfactory result, for microscopic .•inalyscs showed t.he milk to be free of germs. The Danish Government, therefore, in 1898, passed an Act compelling all dairy factories to Pasteurise the separated milk to at least 180deg. F., before it was delivered to suppliers, and since tliis Act had come into force, disoases amongst calves and pigs, iho origin of which could previously be traced to raw separated milk, immediately stop2«Ml. The Act was most strictly enforced. Th~e police would at irregular- and uncertain times (but not Joss than 6ix : .tuncs a year) come to the factory and take a- sample of the separated milk, which was forwarded to a laboratory, where by a- simple process, it could easily be ascertained il (ho milk had boon sufficiently healed; il proved otherwise, the factory was heavily fined. When the Act of 1898 was passed, the factories were very much "against it, as it was believed that tho increased working expenses,' bwt . tlie Pasteurising apparatus was brought to such a state of Infection, that obviated much expense, tfo maintained that pasteurisation ensured wholesome milk to be distributed at the factories, and if adopted in this country, would .help New Zealand to maintain the reputation, of being one of the healthiest and cleanest live-stock countries in the world.