Portable pasteurizer keeps milk disease-free for Kenyan, Rwandan dairy farmers

FILE - Milk containers are seen in the dairy section of a supermarket in Nairobi, Kenya, May 8, 2017. File - Young Pokot pastoralists milk a cow early in the morning in Lomudita, West Pokot, Kenya, Jan. 26, 2020.

Kenyan officials have long pushed for milk to be pasteurized before it reaches the marketplace, but much of the milk sold is not pasteurized because small-scale vendors and producers can’t afford the expensive machines used in the process. Now, Canadian university graduates have developed a portable, affordable pasteurization machine that could help African farmers cheaply sterilize the dairy product and reduce milk-related disease.