Why Does Organic Milk Have a Longer Shelf Life Than The Regular Kind?
Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 10:36
in Health & Medicine
It all has to do with where the cow was milked. "Organic milk often has to travel thousands of miles to reach distribution points," says Dean Sommer, a cheese and food technologist at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin. To survive the journey and leave time to spare in the fridge, farmers pasteurize organic milk at higher temperatures than conventional milk. read more