Milford News | 1931-07-02 | Page 1 | County Inspector Rejects Meat not Properly Cooled

COUNTY INSPECTOR REJECTS MEAT NOT PROPERLY COOLED Dr. J. E. Parker, county inspector, issued a warning Tuesday on his inspection in-spection trip to Milford against improper im-proper cooling of meat and milk. It was necessary for him to reject a beef here because it had soured, the result of covering the beef too soon after slaughtering. Had time been allowed for cooling, the souring would not have occurred, Dr. Parker stated. The same warning applies to milk. If it is kept below seventy degrees, multiplication of bacteria can be arrested ar-rested and the bacterial count kept down to requirements. But if not kept cool, the bacteria increases rapidly and the milk must be rejected. Some samples of milk taken from this end of the county have tested below be-low requirements in butterfat, he stated. He added that he had been forced to reject a number of livers' on his meat inspection this trip as they were infected with fluke worms. This is caused by allowing the cattle to graze in pastures where there are snails on the feed. Asked as to the conditions of the dairies of the county, he stated that the conditions are the same in the west section as in the Beaver section and that a number of them will have B to be cleaned up or the milk produced will not pass health requirements. It will take time, he said, to get the dairies dair-ies of the county into a condition to produce safe milk, but he will be glad to instruct and assist the dairymen in reaching the standards of sanitation for their plants.