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Nations Largest Raw Milk Dairy Sues FDA Over Interstate Ban
DECEMBER 17, 2012 in F R O N T P A G E, G O V E R N M E N T, H E A L T H

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Organic Pastures,thenations largest raw milk dairy, has launched a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for allegedly turning its back on the dairys request for the agency to change its current law banning sales of raw milk across state lines. Raw milk is milk that hasnt been pasteurized to kill potentially harmful, andattimesdeadly,pathogenssuchasE.coli,Listeria,Salmonellaand Campylobacter, all of which have been been linked to raw milk food poisoning outbreaks in a number of states across the nation. The Fresno-based dairy submitted its request to the agency back in December 2008. According to statute, the FDA is supposed to respond to this sort of request referred to by the agency as a citizen petition in 180 days.TheFDApromotesthisadministrativeprocedureasawaytoexamineissuessuchasthistoseeifchanges should be made. InasimilarlawsuitfiledlastyearbytheFarm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which focused on the agencys ban on interstate sales of raw milk, FDA faulted the defense fund for bypassing this administrative procedure. It told the court that filing a citizen petition allows the FDA to consider and address plaintiffsconcerns and could potentiallyresolvethoseconcerns,orattheveryleastmightcrystalizetheissuesincontention.The federal court dismissed the case in April 2012. TimetoGetOnwithIt Organic Pastureslawsuit against the FDA was filed on Dec. 12, 2012 in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of California. It names Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as well as the agencies they head as defendants. As far as the dairys owner, Mark McAfee, is concerned, its high time for the feds to stop dragging their bureaucratic heels on this issue. Nations Largest Raw Milk Dairy Sues FDA Over Interstate Ban [continued] Related posts: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Setbacks and Bizarre Turns in the Raw Milk Saga Minnesota Farmer Cleared in Raw Milk Case Scientists Announce Genetically Modified Cow to Produce EngineeredMilk for Infants Chocolate Milk Ban At New Bedford School Creates Black Market For Syrup Monsanto Rider: New Bill Could Make Biotech Companies Immune to Courts

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