Who is minding the store?

Certainly the FDA is responsible for upholding "standards of identity" for dairy products. But, they seem to not care or think what ever the big guys want to do, is OK.

Here is a link to an article on yogurt I did for the latest Milkweed:

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Compare FDA's efforts to stop "cow share" programs or raw milk sales with their enforcement effort on dairy standards.

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If you go to http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ImportProgram/ImportRefusals/default.htm you will see the above message. Notice the date - June 30, 2010.

This has to be some sort of record submittable to Ripley's Believe It Or Not for the longest time to fix a glitch in a web site.

It has been long enough.

With FDA Its OK

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According to the Washington Post FDA never, ever inspected the two facilities involved in the massive egg recall.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08
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Since they never used the power already given to them, they, the FDA seems to need more.

What does this have to do with dairy. If you take a look at the above data on MPC imports, the product coming from that lead dairy country, Singapore, should raise warning flags.

Additionally, the MPCs coming through Singapore entered the country at 54% of the price of the MPCs coming from New Zealand.

MPCs are not a legal food ingredient, but FDA has never, ever done anything about the MPCs dumped into the cheese vat.

Nobody wants an intrusive government but, a government agency, such as FDA, which is asleep at the switch is an invitation to disaster.

Disappearance Act

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http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ImportProgram/ImportRefusals/default.htm

As can be seen in the above image and at the above link, FDA stopped, by the end of June, making public any import they detained.

GAO came out with a new report "Food Safety" in May, 2010: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10699t.pdf

The report is titled: "FDA Could Strengthen Oversight of Imported Food by Improving Enforcement and Seeking Additional Authorities"

As they say "Hearty appetite"!