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Article: Skimmed milk may carry risk of bacteria
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2000
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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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