PASTEURISATION
Sir,-I am astounded to read that the main reason for pasteurisation has been ignored by your correspondents. As a young mother (and former nurse) I would never give my children unpasteurised milk unless I knew its origin and could ascertain that the cows supplying it were T.B. tested and healthy. There is also the risk of passing on undulant fever (an extremely dangerous disease) to say nothing of others such as typhoid and dysentery which have been traced to dirty milk supplies and unhealthy cattle. Perhaps the taste is spoilt by pasteurisation for some, but what a risk to take! To E. Cain I would say that I am not a Plunket authority but would suggest that the reason for ‘stressing that milk (which has already been pasteurised) should be boiled for infants is because it is more digestible in that state. When my eldest child went’on to full milk at 10 months I particularly asked whether it. should be boiled still and was told by the nurse that it was no longer "necessary.
M.
M.
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 5
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178PASTEURISATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 5
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