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Letter: Letters: Curdled

Published 10 August 1991

From H. B. M. JOHNSTON

A problem! Two bottles of milk, one semi-skimmed and one full-cream
homogenised, delivered at the doorstep in warm weather at exactly the same
time and put in the fridge together. The semi-skimmed ‘goes off’ within
a day, but the other is still OK after two days. This has happened more
than once during recent spells of warm weather so I feel this cannot be
a matter of chance, but that there must be a scientific explanation for
the different keeping qualities. What is it?

Mr H. B. M. Johnston London

Issue no. 1781 published 10 August 1991

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