Wellthy Choices Network

Posted By Jan Jenson on January 24, 2011

The dairy industry will have you believe that the

antibiotics in cow’s milk are within “safe” levels

established by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Yet, on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, FDA quietly announced

that 1,800 dairy farms have tested positive for illegal

levels of antibiotics in milk, and that they will soon

begin random testing of 900 of those dairies. See:

http://www.dairyher d.com/news_ editorial. asp?pgID= 675&ed_id= 13115&news_ id=29460& ts=nl2

What FDA has not told the public is that during the approval

process for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine

growth hormone (rbGH), regulators were aware that rbGH-treated

cows were getting sick and required more antibiotics,

so Monsanto had their top scientist (Margaret Miller)

transferred to FDA where she arbitrarily increased the

allowable level of antibiotics in milk by 100 times!

I discovered the evidence twelve years ago:

http://notmilk. com/deb/021499. txt

On Monday (January 17, 2011), the federal government

filed suit against an 850 cow dairy farm for using

excess amounts of antibiotics. That story appears

at the conclusion of today’s column.

It takes twelve pounds of milk to manufacture

one pound of ice cream. Concentrated drug-filled

milk with the addition of sugar. America’s

most popular food. The most common antibiotic

found in slaughtered dairy cows is LS-50.

Nine years ago (February 7, 2002), Notmilk reported:

LS-50 is an antibiotic made up of two other antibiotics,

Lincomycin and Spectinomycin.

Dairy farmers use LS-50 to treat a condition called

footwarts. Very unpleasant. Very illegal.

The category of mycins that include LS-50 carry

serious warnings regarding their use. FDA works with

a manual called the “Green Book.”

Remembering that LS-50 is composed of Lincomycin

and Spectinomycin, I first looked up the files on

every single variation of Lincomycin approved by

the FDA. There are actually 49 different antibiotic

drugs permitted for animal use. Without exception,

each and every one of those drugs has been approved

for either chickens or swine weighing under 250 pounds.

None have been approved for cattle or dairy cows.

There are 21 different manufacturers listed for the

49 different drugs. One name stands out, owning 18

of those 49, Pharmacia-Upjohn. Pharmacia-Upjohn is

owned by Monsanto.

The second category of drugs were the Spectinomycins.

There were just ten of these, and Pharmacia-Upjohn/ Monsanto

owned three of them.

There on the list was LS-50, and here is the warning for

use of LS-50, as written in FDA’s Green Book:

“Species: chicken up to seven days old. Limitations:

can be used in cattle, calves excluding veal calves,

dairy cows excluding female breeding age animals.

Do not use in female dairy cattle 20 months of age

or older. Use in this class of cattle may cause

residues in milk. Federal law restricts this drug to

use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian. “

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Wash. Dairy Cows Had Unlawful Drug Residues

By Gene Johnson

Associated Press

January 17, 2011

“SEATTLE — Federal authorities have sued a northwest

Washington dairy that they claim has a long history

of selling cows for slaughter even though their

tissues contained drug residues deemed unsafe to eat.

“The 850-cow Rhody Dairy LLC of Sumas was charged civilly

in U.S. District Court in Seattle this week with violations

of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

“The complaint says that seven times in the past decade,

the U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued letters to

the dairy warning that cows it offered for sale tested

positive for illegal levels of antibiotics, anti-inflammatory

medications or other drugs.

“The Justice Department said that despite the warnings,

the dairy administered the drugs to its cattle in

unapproved dosages or without prescriptions, or that it

failed to observe proper drug withdrawal times before

offering the cows for slaughter. They also say the dairy

refused to keep treatment records for the animals.”

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Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk. com

http://www.Twitter. com/TheRealNotmi lk

Categories: Deadly drugs, NOTMilk, Nutrition/Raw Foods, TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT!

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