SUPPLY OF PURE MILK

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22513, 23 November 1944, Page 4

SUPPLY OF PURE MILK

PLUNKET SOCIETY’S VIEWS PRESERVATION OF QUALITY (By TPlefrranli. —Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday The importance of milk as a food was stressed at the Plunket Society’s annual conference, which has concluded in Wellington. Attention was also drawn to the many ways in which this commodity could become contaminated in every stage of its journey from the producer to the 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 no treatment could make bad milk good. For this reason the society was firmly convinced of the importance of an adequate supply of milk from tuberculin tested cows. The society endorsed the ideal of the Milk Commission of the adequate supply of good milk meeting the requirements outlined in the commission’s report until 100 per cent satisfactory pasteurisation could be attained. Advice to Mothers The society decided to continue to urge mothers to take the Truby King measures to prevent infection from milk. It was alleged that some of the so-called pasteurised milk did not comply with the regulations governing the sale of pasteurised milk. Sometimes milk was stale before it was pasteurised; sometimes dirty bottles were used; sometimes pasteurised milk was sold loose and was contaminated on the round. For these reasons the Plunket Society again put forward a plea that no milk should be sold as pasteurised milk unless it conformed with the regulations governing the sale of milk in the Food and Drugs Act. It was contended that the milk supply should be made the responsibility of some competent local authority, and that it was the duty of all branches of the society to see that such public authorities were competent and that their care of the liquid milk supply was as sound and satisfactory as possible.