Why in the USSR milk was given out at enterprises as “harmful”

Many people remember that in the USSR milk was given out to workers in hazardous and hazardous industries, and this practice was shortly called: "milk for harmfulness." But why milk, and how it helped to cope with the consequences of unhealthy working conditions, we will tell in our review.

It turns out that initially it was supposed to give milk to the starving employees of the Putilov factory in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), about which a corresponding decree was signed in 1918. Milk acted only as a nutritious product capable of improving health, weakened by malnutrition.

Later there was evidence that milk can help the body cope with the toxic effects of certain hazardous substances. It turned out that it contributes to the rapid removal of salts of heavy metals, and also helps to compensate for the effects of radiation. Therefore, the practice of issuing milk was introduced over time throughout the country, and the norms for issuing milk and a list of hazardous industries were enshrined in law.

Milk is a valuable product from which calcium and beneficial amino acids are well absorbed. Milk contributes to the overall strengthening of the body and the maintenance of the forces of workers in difficult production conditions. In the Russian labor legislation there is still a list of hazardous industries whose workers are supposed to receive a daily norm of dairy products of 500 milliliters. This is primarily paint and varnish, oil refining, metallurgical and chemical production. In practice, milk is often not issued, since today it is allowed to replace the issuance of dairy products with monetary compensation.

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