The article "F.D.A and Dairy Industry Spar over Testing of Milk" talks about how there are drugs in the milk that factories send out. The FDA wants to take action by testing the products before it reaches the public. But to do so they will need a week for the testing; the producers felt that is too long and milk would have to dumped by then. There have been drugs found in the milks and the FDA want to take action, but that might lead to having milk wasted or having a callback a little too late.
Even though I agree that the milk should be tested before it is put to the market, I don’t think a week worth of testing is the way to go. Keeping the milk that long not only creates a shortage in time, but have the milk be spoilt. The way the FDA is planning on performing 2 dozen of tests not only delays the amount of milk being put on the market but also increase the amount of milk being dumped. The drugs the factories give to the animals are sometimes injected into the muscle instead of the veins. That is something the FDA can control by providing veterinarians to perform those procedure. That way the animals receive the drug the right way, which won't make the drugs affect the milk as much as they would have.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/business/26milk.html?ref=health
No comments:
Post a Comment