Raw Milk in National News

30 AUG 2008 The August 30th Senate floor debate for SB 201: News Report on SB 201

07 AUG 2008: USA Today carried an article on raw milk, August 7, complete with information on Organic Pastures raw milk dairy in California and the Weston A. Price Foundation's Campaign for Real Milk. Of course, the article quotes FDA officials likening the consumption of raw milk with "playing Russian roulette with your health," but there were plenty of quotes from satisfied raw milk consumers. Internal Medicine News, which reaches 100,000 medical doctors is planning to run a "Point/Counterpoint" piece on the question "Should physicians advise patients to avoid drinking raw milk?" Our own Dr. Tom Cowan will be participating.

AUG 2007: National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS): The 31st National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments was held May 5-10, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The main purpose of the conference is for the delegates (dairy officials from each of the fifty states) to the general assembly of the NCIMS to deliberate and vote on proposals submitted to it; proposals which have passed can result in amendments to the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO), the model milk sanitation regulation governing the interstate shipment of milk and milk products. Nearly all states have adopted the PMO as law to govern the intrastate shipment of milk and milk products as well. There was a proposal to the 2007 conference to expand the PMO’s ban on the sale of raw milk to include any dairy animal share program. If the amendment had passed, any state adopting the most current revision of the PMO would have effectively made cow shares illegal if their state law were silent on the issue. Only a handful of states have laws directly addressing the validity of cow shares.

Fortunately, the support was not there for the proposal to pass; and its proponents submitted a substitute proposal calling for a study committee “to look into means to prevent animal/herd shares and other practices used to circumvent food safety regulations.” This proposal passed and the study committee will report its findings at the 2009 NCIMS. One state dairy official at the conference stated that she believed there would never be enough votes to pass a cow share ban a any future NCIMS.

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