Milk is a good source of various nutrients. With calcium and vitamin D for bone strength, protein for tissue repair, and a range of vitamins and minerals like B vitamins, potassium, and phosphorus contributing to overall health, milk offers essential nutrients for your well-being.
Raw milk containing aflatoxin, antibiotics, TPCs and adulteration such as hydrogen peroxide jeopardises the safety and quality of processed dairy products.
Safe and quality milk, as defined by the Kenya Dairy Board, must be free from harmful levels of aflatoxins, antibiotic residues, and bacteria.
Farmers can ensure milk safety by controlling aflatoxin contamination, preventing antibiotic residues, and maintaining strict hygiene practices. Additionally, pasteurization, which involves heating milk to kill harmful bacteria, ensures that processed milk is safer for consumption by eliminating pathogens, thereby guaranteeing clean and healthy milk for all consumers.
Recently, Safe Milk Kenya launched a campaign dubbed "Know your Milk-Improve your Health."
The initiative, co-funded by Bio Foods Products Ltd and USAID, aims to raise awareness among consumers and farmers on the impact of high levels of aflatoxin in milk on health, to provide training and advice on mitigation measures to reduce it towards a national outcome of better health for dairy consumers.
