Processing milk is processed in a number of ways to produce a variety of products such as cream, cheese, and or whole fresh milk is processed to produce number of fluid products. Skim milk ca. reduced fat milk (up to 2 fat is produced by following heating to 100 F to remove butter fat as cream, by use of skim milk to which the content is ed. The latter is pasteurized either at F C) for 30 minutes or at 166 175 F Evaporated for 15 sec prior to cooling to around 78 water from whole milk which results milk is produced by the removal of about 60% in the lactose content being about 11.5%. Sweetened condensed milk is produced by the addition of sucrose or glucose before evaporation. This leads to a product with a sugar content of about 54% or >64% solution. In the United States, grade A raw milk that is to be pasteurized should not have an APC exceeds 300,000 cfu/ml for commingled or blended milk, or should not exceed for milk from an 100,000/ml individual producer. After the APC should not exceed 20,000 the coliform count should not exceed 10/ml Raw milk should not be held longer than 5 days at 40 F (4.4°C) prior to pasteurization. Chocolate milk is processed at a slightly higher temperature than unflavored milk (75°C for 15 sec rather than 72 C). A study of chocolate milk from four plants revealed that the APC was higher at 4 days than unflavored milk even though the initial numbers for both types were 13 essentially the same On day 14, 76.1% of unflavored and 91.6% of chocolate milk had APCs 20,000 cfu/ml with of the former and 53.7% of the latter having cfu/ml. These investigators suggested that the chocolate flavor powder contributed to increased growth.3 The higher numbers were not due to higher numbers in the chocolate powder per se.