OHIO: Can milk jugs tell you what’s not inside. - (The Columbus Dispatch)
November 19, 2007 – 7:18 pmhttp://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/11/17/milk.ART_ART_11-17-07_A1_5E8GLUR.html?sid=101
What you know about your milk will be dictated by new state rules now being crafted.
The issue of what should be on milk and dairy-product labels pits dairy farmers who treat their cows with synthetic growth hormones to stimulate milk production against those who do not.
Farmers who don’t use them want to advertise that fact on milk labels. They often include language on product labels such as “from cows not treated with rbST,” the synthetic hormone. But farmers who do use the hormones say so-called “absence labeling” — telling consumers what isn’t in a product — implies that their products are inferior.
The state Agriculture Department now will sift through the hype from both sides to decide on labeling standards.
Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America, was quoted as saying, “Consumers want to have the choice in the marketplace.”
John Douglass, a Wayne County dairy […]
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