Fwd: RE: [S-A] Rense: FDA- Don't Label Milk Hormone Free- Outrageous!

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" Winterwolf "

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:53:06 -0600

RE: [s-A] Rense: FDA- Don't Label Milk Hormone Free- Outrageous!

 

 

Chalk one more up for the bad guys. The Government, who subsidises all

these huge Agro-businesses, isn't going to let a little thing like consumer

sentimet stop them from raming GMO's down our throats, quite literally.

 

John

Misty L. Trepke [mistytrepke]

Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:48 PM

[s-A] Rense: FDA- Don't Label Milk Hormone Free- Outrageous!

 

 

This is outrageous!!

Be Well,

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

FDA Warns Milk Manufacturers On Hormone Labels

9-18-3

 

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on

Friday told four companies which make milk and ice cream to stop

labeling their products as free of hormones.

 

No milk product can truthfully be labeled hormone free, the agency

said, because all milk contains naturally occurring hormones.

 

" FDA is committed to assuring that consumers are provided with

truthful information on product labels, " FDA Commissioner Dr. Mark

McClellan said in a statement.

 

" FDA will continue to take strong action to protect American

consumers from products with labeling that is false or misleading. "

 

The agency said the makers may have wanted to say their products

were free of an engineered hormone called recombinant bovine

somatotropin or rbST, which is used to increase milk production.

 

" Before the 1993 approval of rbST, FDA determined that the

recombinant, or genetically engineered form of bST is virtually

identical to a cow's natural somatotropin, a hormone produced in the

pituitary gland that stimulates the production of milk, " the agency

said.

 

Because the products are virtually identical, the FDA said there was

no need to label milk that contains the genetically engineered form.

 

" Producers have no basis for claiming that milk from cows not

treated with rbST is safer than milk from rbST-treated cows, " the

FDA added.

 

2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

 

 

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