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The Vitamin C Content of Electrically Treated Milk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. C. van Leersum
E. C. van Leersum*
Affiliation:
Director of the Netherland Institute of Nutrition, Amsterdam.
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The foregoing report of Professor van Loghem and his co-worker, Miss Benjamins, confirms the results found by Professor Beattie and Dr Lewis, concerning the bactericidal action in milk of the electric current of high voltage. It also proves that the sterilising power of electrical treatment with carbon electrodes is not inferior to that with copper electrodes. These results, and also my experience of the vitamin C sparing effect of the carbon electrodes, have caused me to recommend the use of this kind of electrode in the electric treatment of milk, provided that the milk used be fresh and that it contains but little oxygen. The same reservation applies to milk pasteurised by heat and to pure raw certified milk. It is important that the supply should be fresh.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , November 1926 , pp. 461 - 470
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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