Milk board ordered to investigate rotten milk

[misskit]

Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperative Minister Gen Chatchai Sarikalya today ordered the Milk Board to investigate following pasteurised milk delivered to a school in Nan province was rotten and students were hospitalised after drinking it.

He instructed the board to find out the cause after it was reported that only the lot delivered to a school in Nan was rotten while other lots delivered to several provinces were not, although they were from same manufactured lots.

Gen Chatchai said the Milk Board, the veterinarian and the Dairy Farming Promotion Organisation of Thailand (DPO) must go out on field inspection to see what the cause was, how the milk was stored, and transported so as to prevent this from happening again in the future.

He said if the same incident happens in the future, then there must be the right person to take responsibility.

DPO deputy director Suchart Jariyalertsak, a member of the Milk Board, said initial investigation revealed only nine cartons of milk sent to the school in Nan had problem.

Improper storing and handling of the milk was a cause for the rotten milk.

He said during the school holiday period, children will get the milk delivered to their homes.

He said there are seven million students under the free milk scheme for drinking with the supply of 140 UHT million cartons.

Milk board ordered to investigate rotten milk - Thai PBS English News

[Chittychangchang]

Improper storing and handling of the milk was a cause for the rotten milk.

Poor kids, told to chew lumpy milk.

Education!Education!Education!

[Norton]

No need. Just another brick in the wall.

[Norton]

nine cartons of milk sent to the school in Nan had problem.

Slow news day at PBS.

[BaitongBoy]

What's a milk board?...

[Norton]

What's a milk board?...

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[misskit]

Cabinet asked to break DFPO’s school milk supply monopoly

A former Democrat MP has threatened to ask the National Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the cabinet if it endorses the Finance Ministry’s plan to extend the contract for the Dairy Farming Promotion Organisation to supply school milk to all schools throughout the country for two more years.


Mr Watchara Petthong said the Finance Ministry would propose to the cabinet next week to extend the contract allowing DFPO to supply milk to schools for another two years.

The ex-Democrat MP said he would like Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan who would chair the cabinet meeting to scrap the contract in light of the recent scandal regarding rotten milk being sent to schools in several provinces.

He blamed corruption for being the chief culprit resulting to rotten milk or expired milk being supplied to several schools.

Watchara said he believed Gen Prawit would be very disappointed when he learned that there was suspected massive corruption involved in the school milk programme.

He suggested the contract to be scrapped so that local administration bodies or schools could make their own choices about the kind of milk they should buy for schools in the areas of jurisdiction.

Cabinet asked to break DFPO?s school milk supply monopoly - Thai PBS English News