October 18, 2017
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.
