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AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands, January 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, dairy company Royal FrieslandCampina presented its logo. The new logo represents FrieslandCampina's ambition: to get more out of milk by producing food, drinks and ingredients that helps people move forward in life. A pure white centre radiates a spectrum of colours and these colours represent the endless possibilities of milk. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090127/336160 ) The new logo stands for...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers who purchased raw milk from the Conestoga Valley Dairy Farm in Ephrata, Lancaster County, should discard it immediately due to the risk of Salmonella contamination, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today. Raw milk has not been pasteurized to kill disease-causing bacteria or homogenized. Pennsylvania farms selling raw milk must have a permit and have product samples tested in a laboratory due to the health risks...
Unpasteurized milk and unpasteurized milk products should not be consumed to prevent milk-borne infections, U.S. federal health officials said. Eating fresh cheese at a fair in Kansas was the only recent exposure associated with illness. Of 101 persons who ate the cheese, 66 percent became ill, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said. On October 26, 2007, a family health clinic nurse informed the Kansas Department of Health and...
The sale of raw milk was illegal in 26 states as of 2006, but those who oppose pasteurization have found ways to circumvent the law, U.S. reseachers say. The study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, finds that an average of 5.2 outbreaks per year linked to raw milk occurred in the United States from 1993 to 2006 -- more than double the rate in the previous 19 years. Study co-authors Jeffrey T. LeJeune and Paivi J. Rajala-Schultz of the College of Veterinary Medicine...
Raw milk is illegal in many countries as it can be contaminated with potentially harmful microbes. Contamination can also spoil the milk, making it taste bitter and turn thick and sticky. Now scientists have discovered new species of bacteria that can grow at low temperatures, spoiling raw milk even when it is refrigerated. According to research published in the November issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, the microbial population of raw milk is...
A news report on Tuesday said China is ordering all liquid and powdered milk manufactured before Sept. 14 to be taken off the shelves for melamine testing.This marks the first time Beijing has issued a blanket recall of products since the tainted dairy scandal broke last month.Since four babies died and tens of thousands of children were sickened after drinking tainted milk, China has taken a series of measures to allay worries over the quality of Chinese products and restore consumer...
China sets new standards for dairy industry BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's State Council issued a series of quality control regulations for dairy products on Thursday. The move was prompted by the country's contaminated milk scandal. The regulations tighten control of how milk-yielding animals are bred,how raw milk is purchased and the production and sales of dairy food. There will also be more severe punishment for people who violate safety standards and quality control departments...
Text of report in English by Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien on 8 October [Unattributed report: "Melamine Scandal Hits Dairy Farmers"] Consumers have been shunning milk products, leaving farmers carrying the can. Northern dairy farmers have been dumping tons of milk every day in the wake of the melamine scare, which has slowed milk sales across the nation. Six months ago Bui Thi Thuy borrowed money to buy two cows worth VND28 million (US$1,680) each, after seeing her neighbours make good...
HARBIN, China, Oct. 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harbin Rodobo Dairy Co., Ltd. ("Rodobo"), one of the largest private dairy companies in China, announces today that on September 30, 2008 it went public through a reverse merger by merging its holding company, Mega Profit Limited, a Cayman Islands Corporation, into Navstar Media Holdings, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: NVMH) , a Nevada corporation. After the transaction, Rodobo has changed its corporate name to Rodobo International Inc....
China central government to subsidize dairy farmers after tainted milk scandal BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture said Saturday it had made an emergency rescue plan with the Ministry of Finance to give special subsidies to the country's dairy farmers, who have suffered from shrinking demand after the tainted milk scandal. Fewer dairy farmers were dumping raw milk as government support policies to shield them from losses paid off, said the ministry in a statement...
