Survey of Retail Milk Composition as Affected by Label Claims Regarding Farm-Management Practices
Submitted on Jul 21, 2008 (Original item from 2008)
Diet and Nutrition | Farmed Animals | Biotechnology | Factory Farming | Farming Practices | Food Safety, Additives or Diseases | Meat, Dairy, Egg Consumption
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A trend in food labeling is to make claims related to
agricultural management, and this is occurring with
dairy labels. A survey study was conducted to compare
retail milk for quality (antibiotics and bacterial counts),
nutritional value (fat, protein, and solids-not-fat), and
hormonal composition (somatotropin, insulin-like growth
factor-1 [IGF-1], estradiol, and progesterone) as affected
by three label claims related to dairy-cow management:
conventional, recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST)-
free (processor-certified not from cows supplemented with
rbST), or organic (follows US Department of Agriculture
organic practices). [Excerpted from article]
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