UHT Milk Is Safe – An Awareness Program by Grow Healthy Pakistan & Pakistan Dairy Association

On October 12th, 2017 Grow Healthy Pakistan in collaboration with the Pakistan Dairy Association hosted a blogger’s meet up in Lahore.

The objective of the event was to work towards removing mis-perceptions wrongly associated with the milk in UHT packaging, by educating the public about UHT milk processing and packaging technology and how it is designed to keep milk safe without the need for any preservatives to be added.

All members of the Pakistan Dairy Association presented and reassured the audience about the great care taken to ensure the quality standards of their milk. Those in attendance were told about the modern labs with broad testing capabilities and experts who to continuously check milk quality from the point of collection to the point of sale before the milk reached the consumers. The campaign is to ensure and make the consumer aware about how packaged milk is fully traceable and it’s quality can be verified at any time by regulatory authorities as is now being done by the PFA on a regular basis.

Many people are also not aware that the common practice of boiling loose milk over several minutes at home to kill the bacteria, also destroys most nutrients present within the milk and thus lose its healthiness. Since long life milk has already gone through a controlled boiling process, there is no need to do boil and the healthy nutrients are thus preserved.

For the last 50 years, Long Life Milk (UHT) has become a regular staple in families’ homes across the world and can be termed as the most innovative technology used in liquid food process. Today the majority of milk consumed in countries such France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Brazil and China among others is Long Life (UHT) milk and so Pakistan and Pakistanis are safe with its usage as well.

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