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Message from Deadly Ice Cream? Lots of Food Safety Riddles Remain

by David Gumpert | May 14, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research | 34 comments

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...

E. coli Ravages Kids, Despite Tons of Pasteurized Milk and Hand Sanitizers

by David Gumpert | May 5, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 94 comments

When I saw the news heading— “Dozens now sick with E. coli after Milk Makers Fest”—I thought, uh-oh, milk, E.coli, and kids dropping like flies. Talk about a made-to-order story for the public health fear mongers for whom raw milk is Public Enemy Number 1. As I read...

The Raw Milk Answer eBook by David E. Gumpert

by David Gumpert | May 4, 2015 | What's New | 0 comments

Finally, a serious and candid conversation about raw milk, unlike any that has ever occurred in the many years since raw milk became a subject of contentious debate. The Raw Milk Answer Book raises the most difficult questions surrounding our most controversial...

When Does Food Transparency Trump Privacy, and Vice Versa?

by David Gumpert | May 2, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 64 comments

(This post has been updated since it was originally published May 1.) So Claravale is back on the market with its wonderful raw milk. In a candid report, it says that the campylobacter problem it experienced was traced to a single cow that otherwise seemed completely...

“The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You REALLY Need to Know About Our Most Controversial Food” by David E. Gumpert

by David Gumpert | Apr 30, 2015 | What's New | 0 comments

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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...

The Serious Message Behind the Dr. Oz Blowup

by David Gumpert | Apr 22, 2015 | News Media, Nutrition, Regulation | 60 comments

I’ve been trying to figure out what the campaign to demonize Dr. Mehmet Oz is all about. In the latest effort to marginalize the television personality/surgeon as a quack as opposed to an open-minded medical expert, ten prominent physicians wrote a letter to Columbia...

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...
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