Accession Number:

ADA370711

Title:

DOD Milk Plants in the Pacific Japan.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1996-09-18

Pagination or Media Count:

36.0

Abstract:

This report is the third and final in a series of reports on DoD milk plants in the Pacific and discusses the U.S. Army Kanagawa milk plant in Japan. Since 1947, the Army has maintained a Government-owned, contractor-operated milk plant in Yokohama, Japan, to provide milk and other dairy products to DoD personnel and their families. The milk plant operation was formerly necessary because fresh milk and other dairy products are highly perishable and could not be economically shipped from the United States without spoiling. In addition, DoD could not purchase milk and other dairy products from local dairy sources because Japanese dairies did not meet U.S. health standards.

Descriptors:

• *INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
• *MILK
• *DAIRY PRODUCTS
• UNITED STATES
• HEALTH
• JAPAN
• PROCUREMENT
• STANDARDS
• PACIFIC OCEAN

Subject Categories:

• Food, Food Service and Nutrition

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE