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MILK STANDARDS INQUIRY. 55
himself against a charge for which there is no real evidence, seems
to be oppressive, and to be also a deviation from the great
principle of English law, by which every man is presumed to be
innocent of a criminal offence until he has been proved to be
guilty. It would be simpler and better to make it illegal to sell
as milk any milk which contains less than, say, ll·5 per cent. of
total milk-solids (desiccated fully at the temperature of boiling
water), and that, in calculating the percentage of dilution or of
fat abstraction to which a condemned milk has been subjected,
the condemned milk should be compared not with "bottomlimit"
milk, but with a milk of good average quality, say of
12·5 per cent. of dry milk-solids. These alterations would make
the law clear and just.