APPENDIX B 

 GRADING SYSTEMS 



COMMISSION ON MILK STANDARDS 

 of the New York Milk Committee * 



Proper milk standards are essential to efficient milk con- 

 trol by public health authorities. In the first place health 

 authorities must ascertain that the chemical composition 

 corresponds with established definitions of milk as food, but 

 their more important duty is to prevent the transmission of 

 disease. This means the prevention of the transmission by 

 milk of infant diarrhea, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, septic 

 throat infections, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and other infec- 

 tious diseases. In the interests of milk consumers public 

 health authorities must take positive action to prevent the 

 transmission of any of these diseases, in addition to their 

 duty of preserving the food value of milk. 



The milk producer is interested in proper standards for 

 milk, and should support a movement to secure proper stand- 

 ards, for the reason that these contribute to the well-being 

 and dignity of the milk industry itself. Proper standards, 

 rightly enforced, distinguish between the good-milk producer 



* Extracts from 3d Report (Public Health Reports, Feb. 16, 1917). 

 This commission is national in personnel and scope and is loosely known 

 as the " National Commission on Milk Standards." The reader is 

 earnestly referred to the reports of the Commission for fuller informa- 

 tion on milk control, production, handling, and distribution than can 

 be given in these limited excerpts. These reports are the most im- 

 portant item in milk control literature. They may be obtained from 

 the N. Y. Milk Committee, 105 East 22d St., New York City. 



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