Around the world there has been a sudden appearance of the GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) label. 

According to the American Institute of Stress, Americans are one of the most stressed-out people in the world. The current stress level experienced by Americans is 20 percentage points higher than the global average. 

It wasn’t long ago when consumers seeking lactose-free dairy products had limited options.

Public health dialogue around food and nutrition is evolving from a focus on simply providing calories to ensuring children and families have access to high-quality, nutritious food that will allow them to reach their full potential. 

Whenever I travel outside of the United States, I always look forward to visiting local grocery stores to see their selection of dairy products.

As our State of the Industry report, appearing last issue proves, milk sales are mixed compared to prior years. Total dairy milk sales totaled nearly $15.6 billion for the year ending Aug. 13. 

Take a quick look at the data, and you will observe that dairy product sales across the industry have seen good year-over-year (YoY) dollar growth at retail. 

If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, will it also keep tweens drinking milk through the critical years of bone development and beyond? 

While having one of your cultured products being criticized as lacking cultured flavor is not desirable, those of us who produce cultured dairy products have an even greater fear. 

Cheesemakers are constantly striving to make high quality cheese by avoiding the occurrence of any unwanted attributes or defects.