Packaged Milk in Germany

I currently stay in Germany due to an assignment. I will stay here for around 3 years. My family is settled with me and we are getting used to the German style and cost of living...

Well, German Engineering is known for quality and perfection. Made in Germany is an envious label on any product.. But, is this now still the case.. I cannot generalize anything, but would like to mention an observation on this note..

With my two young kids, my family consumes a lot of milk. We buy the packaged fresh milk, this is the nearest product available to fresh milk. Of course, there is no milkman who can deliver fresh milk out of his steel container..

Now, for the sake of statistics, my observation below has the occurrence of once out of ten packages. This is 10% probability of occurrence..

My wife sometimes finds hair of the cow in the milk. It is anybody's guess that the hair is from the milking process. I am not sure, but I certainly assume that milking of Cow in Germany is mechanised and not manual as in India. So, don't we get better quality and perfection.. Any sane thinking should affirm this assumption.. Maybe it is also true if you consider all parameters of quality, but strangely in India, I have never heard my wife telling me that she found hair of the cow in the milk packet !!

So, a simple quote from this incident is that "over attention on perfection does not necessarily lead to better quality - it could be counter-active sometimes.."