by David Gumpert | Sep 16, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Regulation |
This past weekend, we saw the first rumblings that the federal government may become involved in the fermented cod liver oil conflict that has created an uproar within the Weston A. Price Foundation. Food Safety News, an influential online publication about tainted...
by David Gumpert | Jul 11, 2015 | Food Safety, Regulation, Rights, Safety, What's New |
A year ago, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) created a stir of excitement among raw milk drinkers when it said it was considering expanding access by allowing raw milk in vending machines. But now, a year later, the FSA says nothing doing on the...
by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Back in 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s chief dairy guy, John Sheehan (pictured left), committed himself to restricting production of raw milk cheese, stating in a national magazine: “60-day aging is largely ineffectual as a means of reducing levels of...
by David Gumpert | Jun 22, 2015 | Legal, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The California dairy industry, the country’s largest, is in a tizzy about Coca Cola’s new ultra-processed milk product, known as Fairlife. It’s pitched as “better milk” that commands premium prices because it goes through special processing to reduce lactose and...
by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Food safety regulators in New Zealand stuck their collective fingers in the air and concluded that maybe there is something to this raw milk thing. Beginning next March, raw milk will be legal to sell directly from farms to consumers, including via home deliveries,...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
Its not often that a judge steps in to protect a farmer claiming a violation of his constitutional rights from aggressive state regulators, but thats exactly what has happened in the northeast corner of Minnesota. In a 19-page decision, state judge Michael Cuzzo...
by David Gumpert | May 29, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I was talking with a veteran raw milk producer a few days ago, who was telling me that his dairys raw milk sales seemed to have leveled off for the first time in years. Now, it was meat sales that were climbing rapidly. He wasnt sure what was behind the shift away...
by David Gumpert | May 14, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
The recent deaths and illnesses from pasteurized-milk ice cream emphasize, yet again, how much less we know about food safety than the people in charge would care to admit. In the span of a few months, five ice cream companies have recalled potentially tainted...
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