As well as being painful for the cows this means there is blood and pus in their milk. In the US the FDA allows 750 million pus cells in every litre of milk. In Europe, regulators allow 400 million pus cells per litre. In Australia there is no limit on how much pus is allowable.Click to see full answer. Also to know is, is there blood and pus in milk?Regular milk does not contain blood or pus. Blood and pus may be present in the milk when the cow’s udder is infected with bacteria (mastitis) but this milk is discarded by the farmer and is not sent to the factory.Additionally, is cow pus in milk bad for you? Because dairy milk is pooled together in large tanks, virtually all dairy milk contains this pus. A litre of milk can have up to 400,000,000 somatic cells (pus cells) before it is considered unfit for people to drink. Also question is, is there actually pus in milk? No, milk doesn’t contain pus. Milk from healthy animals contains cells, called somatic cells. If the milk has a higher somatic cell count, it’s a sign the cow is fighting an infection.How much pus is allowed in milk in the UK?Average UK levels are around 200,000 pus cells per millilitre – that’s around one million cells in every teaspoonful of milk! Organic milk is no better – organic dairy farmers can’t use antibiotics to control the disease so the situation can be even worse.

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