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As will be seen, the analyses show very little variation from year to
year since the end of the war, due no doubt to the greater part of the
Metropolitan supply being bulked milk.
No samples were submitted during February, but the 19 samples
analysed during March and April again show the seasonal fall in quality
noted in recent years.
Period Fat Solids-not-fat Total Solids
March-April, 1953 3.28 8.55 11.83
As will be commonly known, the seasonal fall in the late Winter months
and the general downward trend in quality experienced during the past
50 years have been the subject of much discussion recently in Parliamentary
circles, and although an amendment to the new Food and Drugs
Bill, designed to arrest the fall by imposing a rigid legal standard in
addition to the present presumptive one, failed to be adopted, assurances
were given by Government spokesmen of their aim to raise the level of
milk quality. A campaign among the farming community and the
distributors was proposed as a means to this end, payment by quality
being regarded as a cumbersome and impracticable system.