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Show Milk Production Survey Made By Health Board Butterfat Content Is Satisfactory But Inspection Indicates Improvement Could Be Made In Handling, Is Report Representatives of the State Board of Health, together with the local sanitary inspector, are in the process of inspecting the sanitary and health condi- tions or our community and in connection with this inspection campaign, are making a study of the conditions under which the milk supply in the community is produced and have made tests of the quality and cleanliness of the milk. The results of these tests show that the butterfat content of all milk tested is very satisfactory but the vegetable tissue content and bacteria count are considerably considera-bly higher than the standard set by the State and Federal Government. Gov-ernment. The vegetable tissue or in other words, sediment and other oth-er foreign materials in the milk, if properly produced, should be practically eliminated. The Government standards in connection with the bacteria count in milk show that a bacteria count of 50,000 per cc- is a very satisfactory satis-factory quality 6f milk and even though the bacteria count is as high as 100,000 per cc. the milk would not be considered undesirable, undesir-able, but when tests show that the bacteria count is up to one to two millions per cc, which is the result shown in some of the tests recently taken, it is obvious that such milk is not of such quality as to meet government requirements. require-ments. Reports have been made to producers pro-ducers of all of the milk tested to date and any milk producer should be in a position to give the consumer such report or information informa-tion regarding the quality of his milk if it is desired. Although the representatives of the State Board of Health and the local sanitary inspector are devoting as much time to the inspection in-spection work as it is possible to do, it is of vital importance that every milk consumer should request re-quest and receive the highest quality of milk obtainable and as far as it is practicable to do so, inquire as to conditions under which the milk being used is produced pro-duced and how it compares with the approved standards. The milk producers that have been contacted show, for the most part, a very cooperative attitude and it is expected that much good will be accomplished from the campaign that is being conducted and that the quality of the milk will show considerable improvement. |