Whether you're in the business of manufacturing cheese, milk products, milk powders, cultured products, ice cream or anything else in the dairy world, your final products must be wholesome and pathogen-free.

Research linking dairy foods with reduced risk of disease has continued to grow over the past decade, including in the area of cardiometabolic health. So what exactly does this mean?

The ability to digest lactose varies widely within populations, ranging from more than 90% of individuals from northern European countries, to less than 10% of individuals from Southeast Asian countries.

Dr. Tharp was a longtime columnist for Dairy Foods magazine.

Dairy is one of the coolest, if not the coolest, food categories in the grocery store. How do I know? Because every time I walk down the dairy aisle, I see another food trying to get into its space.

The pending change to nutrition labeling regulations requiring the declaration of "added sugars" (AS) in the Nutrition Facts panel is likely to make AS content the subject of competitive market positioning. The pending increase in ice cream serving size from 1/2 cup to 2/3 cup (which increases AS by >30% per serving) further complicates AS management.

Milk production is up in Wisconsin; cows produce more milk each year than the year before, and America's Dairyland uniformly describes itself as in crisis.

It's time to celebrate milk - real milk, that is. World Milk Day, an event established by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) back in 2001 to recognize the importance of milk as a global food, will take place on June 1.

Clean label is big business. Euromonitor International estimates that global sales of clean-label food products will reach $180 billion by 2020.

We have often noted the importance of various phenomena, including the agglomerated fat matrix and the size of ice crystals and air bubbles, to the sensory appeal and structural properties of ice cream. Key to managing these phenomena is a complex set of highly variable (sometimes unknown) functionalities.