Clean Milk 



structed with a view to reducing the sur- 

 faces coming in contact with milk, and 

 thought should be given to avoiding corners 

 and other lodgments for coagulated ' milk. 

 Whenever possible, covers should be pro- 

 vided for openings or open vessels, such as 

 receiving vats, carriers, and fillers. All 

 utensils must be cleaned in the manner 

 prescribed for milk vessels, and also steri- 

 lized. The vents of the bottle filler require 

 boiling to clean them properly. 



Bottles need thorough cleaning with cold 

 and hot water, a soda solvent, and a brush, 

 and must also be sterilized. Sterilization of 

 milk bottles in their routine passage from 

 bottling room to consumer and back again 

 is very necessary. The dealer who does not 

 provide for this is criminally neglectful of 

 the sanitary requirements of his business. 

 The bottles are his property, are furnished 

 by him for the use of his customers, and the 

 responsibility for any infection due to them 

 may be laid to him. The vicissitudes of a 

 milk bottle are beyond any one's control, 



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