Re: Health food store harrassed for selling raw milk

[Guest guest]

I have a health food store in PA and we sell raw milk. Regs are regs, so I

wouldnt call what they did harassment per se.

We just started selling raw milk lately, so maybe we're still under the

radar, but we haven't had any issues so far. I talked to my farmer because

I was wondering if he had any issues with the Dept of Ag, but he said no

problems at all. They have a bottling unit so everything is sterile, so not

sure if that is an issue with some of these farms that sell it right from

the farm and milk the traditional way.

Buddy

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Buddy A. Touchinsky, D.C.

Blue Mountain Family Chiropractic

www.bmfchiro.com

Healthy Habits Natural Market

www.healthyhabitsnaturalmarket.com

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:58 PM, haecklers <haecklers@...> wrote:

> I get my raw milk at Kimberton Whole Foods (not affiliated with Whole

> Foods stores) and today there was none - I asked about it and the

> health dept. guy came in and made them pull all the milk off the

> shelves because each jug did not have a warning lable on it (there was

> a sign in the store near the raw milk that had the warning instead).

> It was really just an inconvenience and the farm (Camphill Village -

> cool place!) already had new labels on some of the milk that was being

> sold at a different store.

>

> Just wanted people to know tho, because this is just weeks after the

> Hendricks dairy had a problem - some of their customers got sick and

> the health dept. leaked to the press that the milk was bad, stories

> were on the news all over the state (PA) and it turned out all milk

> samples were negative, so it was a false alarm. Some stations issued

> retractions on their websites but I didn't hear any on the TV news.

>

> I'm hearing rumblings that there is a crack-down on raw milk in PA

> happening. Not sure how true that is, tho.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

No, this was a new issue re: the label didn't have specific warnings

on it. It now reads " *Raw milk has not been pasteurized to remove

pathogens that cause illness. The consumption of raw milk may

increase the risk of food borne illness in persons who consume it -

especially in highly susceptible populations such as infants, older

adults, and people with weakened immune systems.* "

>

> > I get my raw milk at Kimberton Whole Foods (not affiliated with

Whole

> > Foods stores) and today there was none - I asked about it and the

> > health dept. guy came in and made them pull all the milk off the

> > shelves because each jug did not have a warning lable on it

(there was

> > a sign in the store near the raw milk that had the warning

instead).

> > It was really just an inconvenience and the farm (Camphill

Village -

> > cool place!) already had new labels on some of the milk that was

being

> > sold at a different store.

> >

> > Just wanted people to know tho, because this is just weeks after

the

> > Hendricks dairy had a problem - some of their customers got sick

and

> > the health dept. leaked to the press that the milk was bad,

stories

> > were on the news all over the state (PA) and it turned out all

milk

> > samples were negative, so it was a false alarm. Some stations

issued

> > retractions on their websites but I didn't hear any on the TV

news.

> >

> > I'm hearing rumblings that there is a crack-down on raw milk in PA

> > happening. Not sure how true that is, tho.

> >

> >

> >

>

>

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