DRINKING low-fat rather than whole milk could be more likely to infect you
with food-poisoning bugs such as Salmonella and E. coli,
according to PHLS researchers.
Although large dairies used by supermarkets use modern equipment, most small
dairies use pasteurising machines that were built before skimmed milk became
popular. “They weren’t designed to separate the milk during the pasteurisation
process,” says Anita Rampling of the PHLS in Dorchester.
To meet today’s demand for low-fat milk, these dairies modified their
machines to skim off the cream. But Rampling and her colleague Melody Greenwood
investigated two modified farm dairies which had failed…
