The Pasteurization of Milk

Abstract

THIS is a well-planned, well-written and well-documented book, but with a title that may, to some, give a slightly wrong impression of its contents. It concerns itself almost entirely with one main theme-a reasoned statement of the medical evidence in favour of the pasteurization, or effective heat treatment, of all milk. The bacteriological, particularly the public health aspects of pasteurization, as might be expected from Prof. Wilson, are treated with care and thoroughness, and a balanced summary is given of the relevant nutritional findings of the past ten or fifteen years. It is however, no manual for the pasteurization engineer or technologist-that book has still to be written- and the economic, legislative and administrative aspects of milk processing also are only very briefly touched on.

The Pasteurization of Milk

By Prof. G. S. Wilson. Pp. xii + 212. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1942.) 18s. net.