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By Jane M. Caldwell
Portions of this article were originally published in Food Technology magazine.
This session the Missouri General Assembly will consider whether the sale of raw milk should be legal
Continue Reading Raw milk is dangerous; opposition to Missouri bills is necessary for safety
Governor Brian P. Kemp made a special occasion earlier this month for signage of his administration’s Georgia Grown Farm to Food Bank legislation (SB 396), the Freedom to Farm Act (HB 1150
Continue Reading Raw milk wins in Georgia, runs ahead in Missouri, but dies in Iowa
Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,” laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and
Continue Reading The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states
Commercial speech is not easily restricted. Earlier this summer, some state restrictions on speech by companies in the alcohol business were struck down by a federal court.
Missouri’s first in the country state law prevents
Continue Reading Debate about who can call ‘it’ meat moves to the federal court system
If you’ve ever gotten in trouble for coming home with almond milk instead of cow milk, and if you favor labeling food containing GMOs because of your right to know, you are going to love
Continue Reading Big meat says people have a right to know if meat isn’t meat
Another case of hepatitis A has been confirmed in a food handler who worked while potentially contagious at a Huddle House restaurant in Missouri.
Everyone who ate at the Huddle House restaurant in Poplar Bluff,
Continue Reading Employee hepatitis A case confirmed at another Huddle House
Federal officials are attempting to seize more than $70,000 in raw camel milk products stored in a warehouse in Kansas City, KS, including some bearing labels from a Missouri dairy, because they were allegedly shipped
Continue Reading Feds trying to seize raw camel milk suspected in interstate case
Public health officials in Missouri still have not named the restaurant in the state’s capital city where 14 out of 36 people with Salmonella infections ate before becoming ill.
The Cole County Health Department is
Continue Reading Officials won’t name restaurant in ongoing Missouri outbreak
A Missouri dairy owner is on notice from the FDA for selling unpasteurized, raw camel milk in interstate commerce, with the agency discounting the dairyman’s contention that camel milk is not covered by federal law.
Continue Reading Missouri dairy told to stop interstate sales of raw camel milk
Public health and school officials in Randolph County, MO, are investigating an outbreak of Shigellosis that they have been quietly monitoring for weeks.
The county health department issued a news release Monday, more than three
Continue Reading Shigellosis outbreak at elementary school kept quiet for weeks
