Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk, Science and the Law

Citation

Atkins, P. (2011), "Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk, Science and the Law", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 158-159. https://doi.org/10.1108/nfs.2011.41.2.158.2

Milk is an accepted part of the diet and we tend to drink it without thinking about all of the background of both the production and laws pertaining to it.

Peter Atkins looks at the history of milk production and the law and how they developed. It shows how modern laws of food safety have followed the development of various analytical techniques.

For anyone with an interest in the history of food, the dairy industry or food law this provides some fascinating insights about milk. The author states that he tries to take a different perspective to other food historians by attempting to provide historical information about the food stuff – milk itself with copious descriptions of milk as regards it flavour and composition.

Throughout there are fascinating quotes about milk and even more fascinating quotes from legal cases pertaining to milk in the past.