SUN RAYS IN MILK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 24, 23 August 1928, Page 8

SUN RAYS IN MILK

TO PREVENT RICKETS AND OTHER DISEASES.

New milk legislation, "dealing not with the cows and the cowsheds, but with the finished product, as delivered to the door of the consumer," was urged by Mr J. H. Magos, president of th e Federation of Dairymen's Associations, .speaking at the World's Dairy Congress in Central Hall, Westminster, recently.

"Provided," said Mr, Maggs, "milk is of a certain minimum, quality of fat and solids, it* can be sold in Britain in competition Nvith the most hygienicaUy treated and carefully bottled product." In a paper on "Activated Milk," Dr. Wilhelm Hoffman, of Vienna, said tha.t milk treated with ultraviolet rays had proved, in tests made by famous Austrian professors, its efficacy both as a preventive of rickets and as a cure. Experinients showed, he .declared, that animals suffering from i rickets became quite healthy after being fed for four wee'ks with ray-treated milk, while animals fed on milk not ray-treated either died 'or did i not quite recover. i

"Milk," he added, "is a food which is both cheap and easily digested, and can, therefore, be taken in sufficient quantities by everyone. Erom a por phyla etic point of view the sale of a cheap activated milk to the masses is even more important than the direct treatment of the human body wtih artificial sunlight, since this treatment cannot be as universal as the consumption of an activated milk."