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[edit] Concerned Parent

I guess people found my outraged comment to be of a vandalistic nature and personally I find that quite offended. Because of the image's resemblance of Cocaine, my child has ended up inhaling powdered milk and ended up in the hospital. I am a single working mother and really don't have time to go blocking wikipedia. That's a very misleading image. Please put a real picture of powdered sugar instead of one of Cocaine please. 207.228.52.221 (talk) 18:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC) b4.00i,2

[edit] Comment 1

Wrap the milk in a wet towel? Hah, someone should edit that part, make it say something like "Wrap the container of milk in a wet towel".

[edit] Apparent copyvio

The table on reconstituting powdered milk looks like it came from this site. The table is probably copyrighted, so I removed it.--Bkwillwm 04:43, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Facts aren't copyrightable.

[edit] First made

Powdered milk was not first made in the 20th. Genghis Khan's warriors were using it. Someone verify please :)

Not sure if this is good enough, "12th Century Genghis Khan's warriors created powdered milk." http://www.lanimoo.com/products/learn.asp
It was clearly invented pre-20th as numerous sources say malted and chocolate powdered milk were invented in the late 19th century by combining things with milk powder. 24.19.35.187 02:18, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
The article on Coenraad Johannes van Houten says powdered milk was invented by Henri Nestlé in 1867. However, if you read the biography linked from Nestlé's page, it appears it was in fact baby formula that Nestlé invented in 1867, of which powdered milk is a primary ingredient. So this doesn't really contradict the Genghis Khan theory. (To add an extra complication, the baby formula article says that it was invented by Justus von Liebig in the same year. I have to stop reading Wikipedia before my head explodes.) --61.214.155.14 05:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] REQUEST FOR EXPANSION: how is it made?

I was expecting that in an article in an Encyclopedia, one could find at least some information about the process of manufacture of powdered milk, instead of such nonsense banalities as those included in the "Trivia" section. Can anyone add information about the principles, techniques and steps involved in such an important industrial process?

--Thanks, AVM 01:43, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

The process of making powdered milk is obviously based on removing the water from liquid milk. The process begins by removing some moisture by evaporation. The condensed milk is then dried by a variety of methods. One method of drying the milk is to pass the condensed milk through a spray appartus that produces a fine mist. The mist is introduced into a chamber filled with extremely hot air, instantaneously drying the milk. The hot air is vortexed and the powder is pulled through a system where the particles of dried milk are collected from the air by settling or filtering. Clumps and heavier particles of incompletely dried milk are removed by sifting and filtering. The product is then packaged according to the intended use. The typical final product will have a moisture content of less that 4% by weight, and the moisture content can be adjusted during the drying process by adjusting the temperature of the air and flow of the milk through the spray apparatus. I have heard of a process called sheet drying, but I do not have any personal experience with this method. I may be able to provide pictures of the spray apparatus and vortex chamber within a few weeks, if it would help the explaination. No promises, but I could try. There is an excellent reference book out there called "Dairy Processing Handbook" produced by Tetra Pak Processing Systems that explains many of the processes of the dairy industry in general terms. Due to the nature of the method, some burning and scorching of the product may occur. The standard test for scorched particles in powdered milk is performed by reconstituting the milk and passing the milk through a sediment filter. Other tests that might be involved with the quality of the product (not a complete list) include: moisture, acidity, microbiology, and protein content (due to possible denaturization of protein during evaporation/drying process). For further methods of powdered milk testing reference the "Standards for Grades of Dry Milks: Including Methods of Analysis" published by American Dairy Products Institute and "Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products" published by American Public Health Association.

This is the first time I've contributed to Wikipedia. I was hoping to get some feedback on the post before throwing it in the article. Does it make sense/need clarification? All of the composition is my original writing, but should be verifiable. Thanks Acidflask 18:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oxysterols

Compared to fresh milk, powdered milk (and powdered eggs) contains oxysterols [1]. The free radicals have been stated to have atherogenic [2] and carcinogenic properties [3] Powdered milk is frequently added to 1-2% pasteurized milk to give it more body.[4]


The article is from a health newsletter and also lists all heated dairy as containing oxysterols. I moved it because its a whole paragraph in a two paragraph article, and gives undue weight to the information. The information is better suited at an article on oxysterols.

The information about oxysterols was deleted by an anonymous user. The reasons for deletion are unsupportable when four reference have been provided. Since powdered eggs contain oxysterols some discussion of the health implications of this should be included. This would be like deleting any reference to the health of effects of nicotine in an article on tobacco. Wikiherbal 24.83.199.83

[edit] Best item for promoting canned milk powder

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Is dried milk really at greater risk of contamination/disease? I thought even pasteurized liquid milk had a fairly high incidence of bacteria and other contaminants. --Gwern (contribs) 00:04 9 September 2007 (GMT)

[edit] Lacking detais

[edit] Nutrients

How does powdered milk differ in nutrients from hydrous milk? What amount per a measuring unit there is of the same nutrients and how much there are nutrients that does not exist in the other milk? These questions should be too difficult for the average Wikipedian =) Teemu Ruskeepää (talk) 10:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)