INFERIOR CREAM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 4 January 1913, Page 5

INFERIOR CREAM.

Some time ago the directors of the Orara (N.S.W.) Co-operative Dairy Company passed a resolution declining to purchase cream considered 1 6 be worse than second-grade quality, and authorised the manager to return inferior consignments to the senders. The instructions were rigidly adhered to, 4 with the result that a certain (amount of adverse criticism and threatened legal proceedings were freely indulged in. The directors, however, stood solidly to their resolution, and are determined not to encourage the production of low-grade material, which, apart from being injurious to health, is a menace to the industry. As this is a matter which seriously affects every factory in the State, the company (says the Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’) made enquiries of the Health Department, through the police, as to the legal aspect of the question, and the department advises that factory managers should refuse to convert inferior cream into butter, and that they may actually destroy such cream on obtaining the authority of a local Magistrate should a police constable (who is an inspector under the Pure Food Act) lie unavailable. This course the Orara Company has at times adopted. Dairymen would do well to remember that in offering inferior cream for sale they are running risks of prosecution under the Pure Food and Health Acts.

The Orara Company is to be commended for the stand taken in this matter, and it would ho a fine thing for the industry if other companies would follow its example. Two grades of butter would then be produced, instead of four, as at present.