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On Verge of Collapse, Claravale Finally Reaches Out to Community

by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 135 comments

Can The People save Claravale Dairy as it teeters on the edge of insolvency? After weeks of silence, Claravale Dairy, one of two substantial producers of raw milk for retail sale in California (Organic Pastures is the other), is reaching out to its large...

Is It Time for Warning Labels on Pasteurized Dairy Products?

by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 71 comments

The deaths keep coming from pasteurized dairy products. In 2007, it was three deaths (and a miscarriage) from tainted pasteurized milk in Massachusetts. Last year, it was two deaths, one in Wisconsin and another in Delaware (along with at least one miscarriage), from...

Why Media and CDC Distortions About Raw Milk Are So Dangerous

by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 81 comments

  So, David, it is a strong value of yours that accurate information should be reported by journalists? Thank you, Mary McGonigle Martin, for that question. I presume, from the tone and the personal way it is phrased (“it is a strong value of yours”),...

It’’s Time America’’s Media Challenge Government Scientists Who Distort Raw Milk Info

by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 37 comments

As he reports in a comment following my previous  blog post,  Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Co. sent a letter to Pat Kennelly, food safety chief at the California Department of Public Health, expressing upset about the agency’s press release related...

When Do “Mild” Raw-Milk Illnesses Become “Serious” Ones?

by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 89 comments

Last week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that raw milk from Claravale Dairy had tested positive for campylobacter, forced a recall of all its milk, and quarantined the dairy. Claravale, one of California’s two largest raw milk...

“Addressing Food Safety Concerns… Takes the Teeth Out of the Anti-Raw-Milk Arguments”

by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 39 comments

I had the good fortune to spend last week in the Florida sunshine, far from the igloo that is New England. It was an opportunity not just to luxuriate in the warmth of 80-degree sunshine, but also to do some catching up on recent food-related news...

Sure Getting Uncomfortable in MN Countryside for Ag Regulators

by David Gumpert | Mar 13, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 75 comments

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has become something like those obnoxious relatives many of us have, and whom we don’t want around, not just on Thanksgiving, but any time.   In Minnesota’s Cook County, in the northeast part of the state, ever more of...

Read All About It! News Blackout on Sheep-napping Case

by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Regulation | 19 comments

With a prosecutor upset about disclosures on this blog about the scrapie-related sheep-napping case, a Canadian judge earlier today took the extraordinary step of imposing a news blackout on the case.  The effect of the blackout was immediate: The National...
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