The Weston Value Basis has responded with this vital Motion Alert.
On June 6, the FDA wrote to all state public well being and agriculture companies advising them on the necessity to “collectively work to handle new developments associated to the presence of Excessive Pathogenic Avian Influenza A H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) in dairy cattle.”
Though admitting that “. . . we have no idea right now if the HPAI H5N1 virus could be transmitted to people by means of consumption of uncooked milk and merchandise made out of uncooked milk from contaminated cows,” the company recommends that well being and agriculture departments “Distribute messaging to the general public concerning the well being dangers of consuming uncooked milk and uncooked milk merchandise” and “[i]mplement a surveillance testing program in your state to establish the presence of HPAI H5N1 virus in dairy herds that is perhaps engaged in producing uncooked milk for intrastate saleThe FDA and USDA will present “technical help” in sampling and testing.
Their motive is clearly acknowledged: “For states that let the sale of uncooked milk inside their state, use regulatory authorities or implement different measures, as acceptable, to cease the sale of uncooked milk that will current a threat to customers.”
We will assume from this memo that uncooked milk farmers might be receiving visits from officers wanting to check their milk for a non-existent virus utilizing a bogus testing technique, simply as they’ve executed for flocks of chickens.
Happily, some hen farmers have prevented this testing and prevented the slaughter of their animals by insisting that inspectors fill out two questionnaires.
- Inspector Info type to acquire the names and phone info of these visiting their farm (under).
- Questionnaire for Inspector, which asks for proof of profitable isolation of the fowl flu virus, proof of contagious nature of the fowl flu virus, sort of take a look at that might be used and phone info of the lab that might be doing the testing (under).
Clearly, no inspector will be capable of present the data requested on the shape, info that’s the farmer’s proper to have. The hope is that they are going to depart and by no means come again–as they’ve with astute hen farmers.
ACTION TO TAKE: Please share these kinds along with your uncooked milk producer. We hope that these measures will forestall the FDA’s deliberate shutdown of uncooked milk farmers.
Sincerely yours,
Sally Fallon Morell, President
The Weston A. Value Basis
