by David Gumpert | Apr 25, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 22, 2015 | News Media, Nutrition, Regulation |
Ive 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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2015 | Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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...
by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I fought the law and the law won, I fought the law and the law won.from song by The Bobby Fuller Four, 1965 Prosecutors like to make a statement about the importance of a particular criminal case by coming up with as many felony charges as possible against the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 6, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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),...
by David Gumpert | Apr 3, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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 agencys press release related...
by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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 Californias two largest raw milk...
by David Gumpert | Mar 22, 2015 | Food Safety, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation |
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...
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