Re:Steven Milloy (Score 1)

I worked at a milk processing facility and we used mercury thermometers whenever the digital thermometers were not accurate enough. You'd hold this long thermometer in the 5-7k gallons of milk. I was just wondering if we were to drop the thermometer and it break in the process, would that be enough to contaminate the entire load of milk? If so it seems a bit unsafe to use them.