amount of pus allowed in milk
ONE cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow's milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells (common name is PUS) and 20,000 live bacteria... before it is kept off the market. That amounts to a whopping 20 million live squiggly bacteria and up to 750 MILLION pus cells per liter (bit more than a quart). Is it true that there is an allowable amount of pus and blood in my milk? No. As we answered in Brad’s question, all Canadian milk products are extremely high quality. Canadian milk is produced with virtually no contaminants like bacteria, red blood cells or white blood cells (perhaps what you are referring to as “pus”). Milk is rigorously tested and inspected to ensure quality and safety. The well advertised milk moustache ad claims that Milk Does a Body Good.. However in the April 10, 2004 issue of Hoard's Dairyman, the National Dairy Farm Magazine, there are reports of the number of pus cells in Californian milk. This infection is, of course, treated with antibiotics, helping to breed more antibiotic resistant organisms. It is literally unbelievable that one liter (a little over a quart) of Californian milk contained 298 million pus cells in 2003, 11 million more pus cells than it contained in 2002. The USDA recommended three cups of milk a day only have 900mg of calcium. Some argue that only 1/3 of the magnesium is necessary. Mother nature seems to suggest it should be one to one. If the ratio for proper absorption were 1/3 magnesium to one calcium then no more than 300mg of that 900mg of calcium is usable. There is a slight consolation: some other states' milk contains a much higher pus cell count than California's. Alabama's has an average of 444 million cells; Nevada's has less: ‘only' 443 million; while Florida's milk has the highest count: 548 million pus cells per liter, or nearly 130 million per 8-oz glass. Most cow's milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins (up to 200 times the safe levels), up to 52 powerful antibiotics (perhaps 53, with LS-50), blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. (Cow's milk can have traces of anything the cow ate... YOUR STATE'S AVERAGE PUS COUNT. Your state may be in violation of a federal ordinance by allowing too many pus cells in milk sold at your supermarkets. One cup of wholesome milk cannot contain more than 50 million pus cells. That's 200 million pus cells per quart (liter). At the end of this column you will find a chart comparing the average number of pus cells in milk sold in your state to other American states. There is no pus in milk. One of the biggest misconceptions I read about milk online today is that milk has pus in it. It’s a common myth that is nearly always pushed by people who want you to stop drinking milk. It’s used to scare people, and play on their emotional fears to get them to stop drinking milk. This disease can be identified by abnormalities in the udder such as swelling, heat, redness, hardness or pain. Other indications of mastitis may be abnormalities in milk such as a watery appearance, flakes, or clots. So pus is not actually a symptom of mastitis. Mastitis will only cause the milk to be watery, or have flakes or clots. The key to curing mastitis is advanced detection.
For cow's milk 750 MILLION pus cells per liter.