Dairy processors and the foods they make have a pretty good reputation for safety and cleanliness. Aside from news articles about illness traced to consumption of raw milk, recalls of pasteurized fluid milk are not common. Drinking raw milk can be dangerous, especially when the product is mishandled by the purchaser.
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has granted notification of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) for the use of Alltech’s selenized yeast Sel-Plex as a human food additive.
At the recent Natural Products Expo West show in Anaheim, Calif., I was amazed by how many companies promoted new products on the basis of not containing high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).