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Grade A all the way

Three award programs honor dairy processors

MilkPEP, the International Dairy Foods Association and US Dairy Export Council want to recognize great marketers, food safety experts and exporters of dairy ingredients.

July 20, 2017

Deadlines for MilkPEP’s Milk Marketer of the Year and Exporter of the Year are approaching. IDFA opens a call for nominations for its Food Safety Leadership Award.

Food safety

Dairy processing facilities must follow new FDA intentional adulteration rule

This rule in many respects parallels the Preventive Controls Rule for Human Food with the exception that it deals with intentional bad acts.

Clay Detlefsen

June 2, 2016

The FDA’s Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (the “food defense rule”) covers approximately 9,800 food facilities, including dairy plants.

House of Flavors Purple Cow recalled ice cream in January 2016

Ah, nuts!

Nuts, wood pieces trigger recall from 2 ice cream processors

There might be wood pieces in H-E-B’s turtle ice cream. Pecans are found in Purple Cow’s cookie butter flavor made by House of Flavors. The lid doesn't match the cup.

February 5, 2016

H-E-B and House of Flavors issue product recalls of certain ice cream packages.

Food safety

Borden recalls half-pint cartons of chocolate milk shipped to Texas schools

A diluted food grade sanitizing agent may be present in a limited amount of the product run.

December 7, 2015

Borden Dairy Co. of Texas, issued a voluntary recall of certain half-pints of chocolate milk delivered to school districts, institutions and some retailers in central and south Texas.

Food safety

Food recalls hit Karoun Dairies’ cheeses; Greek yogurt parfaits sold at Starbucks

Cheeses might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The yogurt might contain undeclared almonds.

September 25, 2015

Evolution Fresh Greek Yogurt parfaits are recalled because of undeclared nuts; cheeses by Karoun Dairies are possibly contaminated with Listeria.

Think before you drink

Review finds no convincing evidence that raw milk has any health benefits

Prof. John Lucey of the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research reviewed more than 50 scientific articles related to raw milk.

August 18, 2015

A food science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, finds there is no convincing evidence to suggest that the consumption of raw milk provides any health benefits related to improved nutrition, lactose intolerance or better digestion.

Food safety

Packaging film flaw leads to Kraft Singles cheese recall

A potential choking hazard exists of a thin strip of packaging film is not removed from a cheese slice.

August 3, 2015

The Kraft Heinz Co. on Friday voluntarily recalled certain packages of Kraft Singles individually-wrapped cheese slices.

Food safety

What the FDA inspectors found inside Blue Bell and Jeni’s ice cream plants; and steps you can take to improve your dairy plant

Read the FDA reports then go through your plant and look for health violations.

May 22, 2015

We summarize the FDA inspection reports of the three Blue Bell Creameries plants and the Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams plant.

Food safety

Blue Bell Creameries suspends operations at Oklahoma plant, site of contaminated ice cream

In March, the ice cream maker recalled three flavors of its 3-ounce ice cream cups made for the institutional/food service markets and seven novelty products.

April 6, 2015

On Friday, Blue Bell Creameries, Brenham, Texas, said it is voluntarily suspending operations at its ice cream manufacturing plant in Broken Arrow, Okla.

Under pressure

Getting past pasteurization: consider high-pressure processing of dairy foods and beverages

New technologies don’t use heat to preserve dairy foods. The microbiological quality of pressure-treated milk is comparable to that of thermally pasteurized milk.

September 26, 2014

High-pressure-based technologies have the potential to preserve natural freshness as well as the sensory and nutritional qualities of a variety of
dairy products.

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