by David Gumpert | Feb 19, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Probably the most curious presentation at yesterday’s raw milk symposium was by Bruce Clark, the “Clark” of the food poisoning law firm MarlerClark. His session at the International Association of Food Protection symposium (discussed in my previous...
by David Gumpert | Feb 18, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Back in August 2007 I wrote about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration refused an invitation to participate in a Washington, DC, radio program promising a debate on raw milk. “This is not a debatable issue,” explained the FDA. The FDA took the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 16, 2009 | Uncategorized |
If those weirdo foodies want unpasteurized milk so badly, we’ll give them raw milk…We’ll just make them pay $50 a gallon. It sounds a little crazy, I know, but over the last couple weeks, I’ve developed this crazy idea. What if federal and...
by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized |
When I sat down in the hearing room for the opening of the raw milk testimony in Connecticut (described in my previous post), there in the row behind me was New York raw dairy producer Chuck Phippen. (He’s the third from the left in the photo at right.) I first...
by David Gumpert | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Connecticut’s Department of Agriculture is mounting a full-court press to eliminate retail sales of raw milk, via legislation that would confine sales to farms. Connecticut is one of just a handful of states that allow retail sales, and the state’s...
by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2009 | Uncategorized |
There’s been lots of excited talk on a number of foodie blogs about how wonderful it would be to have germ lawyer Bill Marler as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture. “Marler’s wealth of practical,...
by David Gumpert | Feb 5, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I was watching this fraud expert, Harry Markopolos, testifying last night on the national news, throwing out one of the funniest lines I’ve heard in a long time, to effect: “If you flew the entire SEC staff to Boston, sat them in Fenway Park, they...
by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2009 | Uncategorized |
I would like to begin by acknowledging Regulator’s “gotcha” request of me following my previous post concerning split samples (two or more samples from the same bulk tank) of raw milk yielding different results on pathogen presence: “Please...
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