Article: Skimmed milk may carry risk of bacteria

DRINKING LOW-FAT rather than full-fat milk may seem like the healthy option - but it could lay you low with food-borne bacteria such as E.coli, the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) has warned.

The risk comes from smaller dairies which use machines built before skimmed milk became popular. Anita Rampling of the PHLS told its annual meeting that while larger dairies which supply supermarkets do use modern equipment which eliminates potentially harmful bacteria, the older systems at smaller companies skim off the cream in a way that means the milk is not pasteurised properly.

In the pasteurisation process, milk is heated to 72.5C and then chilled rapidly to 4C. The heating destroys ...

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