Still, the region's millions of struggling poor are likely to be better off even if, as usual, the rich skim off the cream.

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But it also separates out the fat, splitting the contents into a cream portion that is 40 percent fat, and skim milk that is less than 0.01 percent fat.

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Milk may have been adjusted by separating part of the milk fat therefrom, or by adding thereto cream, dry whole milk, skim milk, or nonfat dry milk.

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