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The Danger of Improperly Capped Milk Bottles¹

Division of Animal Industry State Department of Agriculture, Sacramento, California

ABSTRACT

Introduction

Except in the case of our certified milks, the protection that the dairyman and distributor can give the milk ceases when it is bottled and left by the driver on the consumer's doorstep; in fact, it can be said that the protection essentially ceases at the time when the milk is bottled. During the interval between the bottling and consumption of the milk there exists a period when the "safety bars" are let down, so to speak. I refer to the imperfect covering for the top of the milk bottle—the so-called slip-in type of bottle cap which leaves the lip of the bottle and the top entirely exposed. The writer has frequently noticed a bottle of milk on the family doorstep surrounded by flies and often a dog or cat licking the droplets of milk from the top. Aside from the repulsiveness of such occurrences, the role of flies in the transmission of typhoid and numerous other diseases is so well estab-tablished that a discussion is unnecessary.

¹ Paper read at the annual meeting of the California Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, Santa Monica, California, September 28, 1921.