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Show Pasteurization Seen As Essential To Modern Society The argument that pasteurize-1 tion is unnecessary in the country coun-try where milk goes directly from the producer to the consumer con-sumer is based upon popular impression im-pression which experience has proved entirely false, according to the findings of the Utah State Department of Health. Recognizing Recogniz-ing that the desirability of having hav-ing milk arrive at a pasteurizer las fresh as possible, the Health I Department points out that slight delays in transportation are of small" moment providing the milk is clean to start with, is kept cold, and otherwise properly pro-perly handled. The greatest consideration in the question of whether to pasteurize pas-teurize or not to pasteurize is that of the transmission of infection. in-fection. Records of milk-borne outbreaks of communicable di-i di-i seases, on file in the office of the Utah Health Department, indi-1 indi-1 cate that in the United States during the last twenty years, a majority of outbreaks occurred primarily outside of cities. In ! approximately 90 per cent of the j cases the sources of infection j were traced to farms. I The proximity of a consumer t to a farm from which he re-I re-I ceives raw milk affords no pro-I pro-I tection. In fact, the Health Department's De-partment's report continues, a typhoid carrier or a diseased cow on a farm infects the milk, and the more promptly and directly the consumer gets the milk the 'greater is the likelihood of the germs still being active. Chances 'of the consumer becoming in-.fected in-.fected are thus increased. I In conclusion the Department ( points out that today pasteurization pasteuriza-tion stands out as a fundamental necessity in a complex human society. |