THE MILK PROBLEM
Sir,—lf Sir Robert Stout|s latest turo to solve the problems and pitfalls of milk catering is to be taken seriously there is no further uso for tho undertaking. If the law stated that certain tests had to 1)0 applied to milk before being offered for sale, any vendor failing to apply thoso tests would commit a breach of that law and could be punished. But the law does not prescribe any precautions to bo observed before offering milk for sale, and, therefpre, no breach can possibly have taken place, and until 6iich provisions arc prescribed it would be malignant to charge a seller with an offence in the sale of a substance where the quality could not bo legally ascertained. This is the equity of the disputed matter. If the latest decision be put • into actual operation there \von!t be a great deal more milk sold.—l am, etc... HEKRY BODLEY. July IS.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 258, 19 July 1918, Page 6
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155THE MILK PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 258, 19 July 1918, Page 6
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