MILK STANDARDS 



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although the report of the Health Department states that 

 " the reduction is a stimulus to adulteration and that the 

 records of the department show that certain dealers, who, 

 under the old law, were just within the standard of 12 per cent, 

 are now selling milk, which repeated analyses have shown to be 

 just within the lowered standard of 11.5 per cent of total solids." 

 In this case it is evident that the quality of the milk supplied, 

 by at least a portion of the producers, followed the standard, 



DIAGRAM II 



YEARLY VARIATION IN COMPOSITION OF MILK (DROOP RICHMOND) 



1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 197 1908 1909 1910 1911 .1912 - 



and it seems inevitable that the other producers will be driven 

 to the adoption of similar measures by stress of competition. 



In both the United States and Canada, milk standards are 

 of an entirely different legal nature to those obtaining in Great 

 Britain; the minimum limits of composition are clearly defined 

 by ordinance or statute and admit of no appeal to the cow. 

 These standards are to be regarded as specifications of what is 

 required to be sold as milk and not the minimum quality that 

 might reasonably be expected by the purchaser. This is 

 equitable, as the purchaser, for a given price, should receive 



