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Southland Times, Issue 23792, 14 April 1939, Page 12

At a medical conference held in Edinburgh recently the question of “safe” milk was discussed and the expressed opinions of several speakers were that the eradication of tuberculosis in dairy herds was the surest means of procuring it. Pasteurizing might be .regarded as “safe” with certain reservations, and a report of a Privy Council committee puts it thus: “The ideal is to supply milk from healthy herds and the freeing of dairy herds from such diseases as tuberculosis, contagious abortion, and the like must still be the primary policy of the clean milk campaign.” A medical authority at the Edinburgh conference, while admitting that pasteurizing was a safeguard, stated that the milk so treated was still liable to infection and that, for children especially, it was not so palatable as fresh milk.