MEDICATED MILK.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17606, 10 January 1929, Page 11

MEDICATED MILK.

Increased interest in milk foUowins the discovery of its vitamin consent has led to the assumption that its nutritive value might be fur^ er creased if it contained some or moie iodine A few investigators have noted a Trace of iodine in milk, while others have failed to And any. During the last two years the Ohio Expenme Station has been looking into tins matter, and reports its observationWhere potassium iodide was fed to cows the resulting milk contained iodine to the amount of five to parts per billion in ordinary milk This indicates that only a small P of the iodine fed appears in the milk. and leads to the conclusion that normal milk may or may not contain iodine, depending on the feeds useu. Milk as it comes from healthy cows, and is kept clean, has all the arguments needed in its favour as a food, and while such frills as iodine are interesting they are eclipsed by toe normal food value of the product. Perhaps it is just as well that the cow has jurisdiction over milk, for probably man would make a poor job at controlling its content.