Dairy

IDFA has posted highlights of major provisions of the new food-safety bill, along with an executive summary and side-by-side comparisons of the current and new law. These materials were featured in this week’s webinar “Understanding the New Food Safety Law.” …

This December, hosted by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, more than 17 leading cheese companies and manufacturers united at a Best Practices Task Force meeting to work on proactively addressing the opportunities and challenges associated with reducing sodium content in cheese. The group has been working pre-competitively to improve consumers health and wellness while maintaining strict expectations for food safety and taste. …

The dairy industry is committed to providing safe and wholesome milk to consumers. The nations 55,000 dairy farmers have a strong track record of compliance with state and federal regulations, and support education and enforcement efforts to further strengthen that record. …

After spending a day with her boyfriend’s family recently, my daughter marveled, “They only drink whole milk!” That milk was delicious, she reported, even after the container had sat on the counter for a while. My darling child, whom I’ll send to college in a few months, had never tasted whole milk before. …

Each year, federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating the milk Americans drink, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue. …