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Turkey Milk, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers Association (SETBİR) Chairman Tarık Tezel said: "It is necessary to increase the number of animals in order to meet the animal protein needs of our population." Tarık Tezel explained that this investment would not only feed domectic population with sufficient animal protein, so the healthy generations that would need fewer hospitals and less nursing homes. Voicing that some people who slander of milk and dairy products produced by the industry at every opportunity, Tezel warned them, "Our milk is healthy but their knowledge is dirty." SETBİR Chairman Tarık Tezel emphasized that more than half of the milk produced in Turkey are either being unregistered processed or sold as street milk! Dairy industry enterprises approved by 7 different Ministries... Stating that public authority registered and supervised by 7 different Ministries, 2 thousand 258 enterprises operate in national dairy and dairy products ...

Turkey Milk, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers Association (SETBİR) Chairman Tarık Tezel said that suggesting to boil the milk in a pot means ‘endangering human life'. Stating that raw milk contains hazards that disrupt the health of people and cause diseases, Tarık Tezel said: "The way to get rid of the disease-causing bacteria in raw milk has been clear since 1862, called pasteurization. French scientist Louis Pasteur invented this method for 157 years to protect people from deadly diseases that can be transmitted from raw milk. It should not be forgotten that boiling in a pot at home does not pasteurize raw milk and does not purify the bacteria causing disease. Claiming that means putting human life into danger. As a matter of fact this is a crime in our country and also across the world." “UHT would be banned if it were harmful” Pointing out that in dairy industry, in addition to pasteurization, other heat treatment technologies, especially UHT, are also...

Press release... SETBİR President Tarık Tezel: We should consume at least 300 kilograms of milk equivalent produts per year Turkey Dairy, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers Association (SETBİR) Chairman Tarık Tezel has made a written statement. "In average 270 kg milk equivalent dairy products consumed in Turkey. This amount surpasses the world average, that is 111 kilos according FAO data, but still below the level of developed countries" Tezel said. “Our goal should be to reach at least 300 kilograms of milk and equivalent dairy products a year, which is the average of developed countries. We must also have sufficient animal resources to achieve this goal. But today in the milk of red meat animals in Turkey, we do not have enough resources. That's why we import increasing amounts of milk and beef cattle every year. If we do not develop our own animal resource, this import will continue tomorrow" he added. "Therefore, in any case, in order to m...