I hope I'm in the right place for advice in this!
I went to France and greec in the past year, where you can buy unpasteurised microfiltered milk - this is when micro 'nets' are used to capture pathogens naturally occurring in milk, to stop it from harming us and increasing the milk's shelf life. It's effective to 99.9999% apparently and as such is very safe to be used as an alternative to pasteurising, which kills the natural lactase enzymes in the milk.
Microfiltered milk abroad is therefore brilliant for all those people who have suffered with lactose intolerance and never been able to enjoy milk properly, because the microfiltering process doesn't destroy the enzyme. This is the key point.
But in Britain, where microfiltered milk is also available, it is, rather strangely, also pasteurised and I have no idea why that is, since the whole point of microfiltering is to remove the need for pasteurising and killing off a very useful enzyme.
I've drunk this fantastic new milk when abroad and I had none of my usual dairy-intolerant symptoms whatsoever and I'd love to be able to buy it I've there too.
Does anybody know if microfiltered UNpasteurised milk is available in the UK or if, as I suspect is the case, there is some Big Brother reason why we can't have it the same as everywhere else?
Thanks 