SC - long-life milk

[Michael Newton]

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <stefan at texas.net>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: SC - long-life milk


> I thought you might be talking about irradiated milk. I wish the US
> would get over its paranoia about such food processing. Irradiation has
> less of an impact on the structure of milk than the UHT processing.
>
> However, as I don't see paranoia dissipating, particularly as our
> education system continues its downward spiral, I would be happy to see
> the UHT milk available in larger than juice-box size containers. It
> would be excellant for the purposes you give. About all we have in
> larger, sealed containers are quart(?) sized containers of "soy" milk.

We have, to a point. Last week at work, I recieved a update on regs.
concerning irradiation usage with meat products. If I remember properly, you
can now use irradiation on (Mammal) meat. Not like we're going to going to
use it at the kosher plant any time soon.
Beatrix
(FSIS Inspector)