DAIRY MILESTONES :

8000 BC: Origins of the domestic cow over large areas of Asia, Europe and North Africa

2000 BC: The domesticated cow appears in Northern Indian Vedic civilization

1700-63 BC: Milk in ancient Hebrew civilization and the Bible

1800: Insulated ice houses were developed

1822-1895: Process of pasteurization is developed by Sir Louis Pasteur

1832: The first commercial production of a dried milk was invented by the Russian chemist M. Dirchoff

1843: Hand cranked ice cream freezer patented by Nancy Johnson of Philadephia

1850: Patent filed for a dried milk process with sugar added

1851: Jacob Fussel started the first wholesale ice cream manufacturing operation in Baltimore, Maryland

1853: Patent for process of evaporated milk and he was awarded patent in 1856

1855: First commercially usable drying process was invented by T.S. Grimwade (Roller dryer process)

1856: First condensed milk factory was operated in Wolcottville, Litchfield country, Connecticut

1866: John Baptist Meyenberg first suggested canned evaporated milk to his employers at the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. in Switzerland. Since the company was already so successful producing sweetened condensed milk, the idea was rejected. Meyenberg immigrated to the United States and began his own company, Helvetia Milk Condensing Co. (Pet Milk), eventually marketing unsweetened condensed milk in 1890

1867: Baron introduced Liebig's soluble food for babies in the European market and same year Henri Nestle invented the first artificial infant food

1868: Commercial Rasogolla was developed by Nobin Chandra Das of India

1874: Invention of ice cream soda by Robert Green

1884: First glass milk bottles patented by Hervey Thatcher

1893: Dr. Henry L. Coit forms the Medical Milk Commission to certify raw milk

1895: Commercial pasteurization of milk begins

1896: First ice cream cone was produced by Italo Marchiony

1899:  Dr. Martin Eckenberg, of Sweden, developed a film drier operating in a vacuum

1899: Milk homogenizer was patented

1901: Campbell of the United Sates and Wimmer of Denmark dried concentrated milk on trays

1914: The first milk tanker trucks are introduced

1917:  Mandatory pasteurization of milk begins

1932: Plastic-coated paper milk cartons were introduced commercially

1934: Pet Milk Co. introduced the first evaporated milk products to be fortified with vitamin D

1935: Yakult was introduced to market by Minoru Shirota of Japan

1950s-1960s: Square shaped milk carton introduced

1974: Nutrition labeling of fluid milk begins

1992: First United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Pyramid is released

2005: USDA Dietary Guidelines released

2008:  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), USA approves milk from cloned animal for human consumption

(Disclaimer: The information compiled here is taken from relevant literature and various sources freely available and is intended for larger purpose of public information only. There is no commercial interest associated and no intention to infringe upon any rights whatsoever. Further, the information is introductory and by no means complete.)