MARKET MILK RATING FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH STANDPOINT

Unpasteurized Milk: A Continued Public Health Threat

Although milk and dairy products are important components of a healthy diet, if consumed unpasteurized, they also can present a health hazard due to possible contamination with pathogenic bacteria. These bacteria can originate even from clinically healthy animals from which milk is derived or from environmental contamination occurring during collection and storage of milk. The decreased frequen...

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A Reoprt from Department of Public Health and Social Medicine

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

A comparison of selected public health criteria in milk from milk-shops and from a national distributor.

Selected public health criteria of pasteurised milk available to the consumer from milk-shops in a pre-defined area of Pretoria compared with a national distributor's milk was evaluated. Of the 135 milk samples purchased from milk-shops, 87% were not fit for human consumption on the basis of the minimum standards prescribed in the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act 54 of1972...

Public health and the safety of milk and milk products from sheep and goats.

Goats and sheep rank third and fourth in terms of global milk production from different species, but unlike cow milk, which has stringent hygiene and quality regulations, microbiological standards for the production and distribution of goat milk and sheep milk are more relaxed. Difficulties in managing the sanitary quality of sheep and goat milk derive from a series of factors including the low...