Federal

August 30, 2018

FSMA Food Safety Regs Going Local

FSMA Food Safety regulations will apply to home kitchen products sold.
August 3, 2018

The Planned Destruction of the American Dairy Farmer

Ex-dairy farmer Gerald Carlin reviews the history of the dairy industry.
July 25, 2018

A Tale of Two Food Systems

The International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) held its annual meeting July 8-11 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The event […]
June 28, 2018

Joel Salatin: Whole Milk Illegal in Schools — Say What?

A proposed bill would allow schools to serve whole, full-fat milk rather than skim milk.
May 25, 2018

It’s Time To Put Our Federal Meat Inspection Law Out To Pasture

Outdated regulations are hampering the beef meat industry . . . Last week, Sens. Mike Rounds (R-N.D.), John Thune (R-S.D.), and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced a bill that would allow meat processed in many state-inspected slaughterhouses and other state-inspected facilities to be sold across state lines.
May 5, 2018

FDA Suit to Seize Camel Milk Products

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. On October 19, 2017, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed a complaint with a federal district court in Kansas […]
May 5, 2018

FDA Bans Raw Camel Milk

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. Hump-Back Dairys, the largest camel milk producer in the U.S., has stopped shipping raw milk for human consumption across state lines. In […]
March 11, 2018

STATE RAW MILK BILLS – 2018 UPDATE

There have been raw milk bills before the legislature in ten different states so far this current session. A bill has made it to the governor’s […]
March 1, 2018

FDA Bootstrapping Its Power under FSMA

Recently the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYDAM) sent what it called a “Milk Control Facility FSMA Survey” to a number of licensed dairy […]