APPENDIX 
METHODS AND STANDARDS FOR THE PRODUC- 
TION AND DISTRIBUTION OF 
“CERTIFIED MILK”! 
Adopted by the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions, 
May 1, 1912. 
Certified milk is the product of dairies operated in accord- 
ance with accepted rules and regulations formulated by author- 
ized medical milk commissions to insure its purity and adapta- 
bility for infants and invalids. 
The need for such a milk was experienced primarily by those 
engaged in the conservation of the life and health of infants. As 
a result there was formulated in 1892 a plan whereby certified 
milk would be produced by a dairyman under the control of a 
medical milk commission designated by a representative medical 
society. 
1 At the fifth annual meeting of the American Association 
of Medical Milk Commissions, held in Philadelphia, May 25, 
1911, a committee was appointed to revise the manual of work- 
ing methods and standards for the guidance of medical milk 
commissions in the supervision of the production and distribution 
of certified milk. The committee consisted of Dr. J. W. Kerr 
(chairman), Dr. S. McC. Hamill, and Dr. Henry L. Coit. 
This, their report, was adopted at the sixth annual meeting, 
held at Louisville, Kentucky, May 1, 1912, as the working 
methods and standards of the association. The association 
recommends them to component commissions as ideal and to be 
as closely approximated as possible. The report includes a 
statement concerning the certified milk movement, as well as 
the revised methods and standards, and is published for the 
information of those interested in the improvement of public 
milk supplies. 
Reprint from the Public Health Reports, vol. xxvii, No. 24, 
June 14, 1912. 
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