HOW TO AVOID DANGEROUS MILK
The careful housewife with experience treats "ropy" milk with suspicion. It may or may not be fit for human consumption. A leaflet on this subject, issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries explains that if a spoon or wire.be dipped into the milk anad then withdrawn, and draws after it threadlike strands, the milk is probably "ropy." This condition may be due to the presence of bacteria, when there is no danger to public health. Ropiness, however is sometimes observed in the milk from individual cows, notably in cases of inflammation of the udder. In such cases the causes may be bacterial or non-bacterial. If. the ropiness does not .increase when the milk is kept, and cannot be propagated by transference into another sample of fresh milk, it is probably due to the presence of fibrin and white corpuscles from the blood. Such milk is known as garget milk, and, points out th e Ministry's leaflet, should not be used as human food.
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Shannon News, 19 April 1927, Page 2
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169HOW TO AVOID DANGEROUS MILK Shannon News, 19 April 1927, Page 2
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