Article: Move over milk, almonds are headed for pasteurization

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Move over milk, almonds are headed for pasteurization

 

By Carol Ness

San Francisco Chronicle

2007-04-30 00:00:00

 

Glenn Anderson is having a tough time swallowing the almond

industry's new rules that require heat treatment or chemical

fumigation of the nuts he grows on 12 organic acres in the Central

Valley of California.

 

" Most of our customers have called me and said, 'We don't want

pasteurized almonds, we want them raw, directly from the field,' "

says Anderson, 72, an organic pioneer whose farm in Hilmar, near

Turlock, Calif., has been in his family since 1912. " I think it's

being shoved down all of our throats. "

 

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