The Weston Worth Basis has responded with this necessary 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 presently if the HPAI H5N1 virus will be transmitted to people by way of consumption of uncooked milk and merchandise created from 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 determine the presence of HPAI H5N1 virus in dairy herds that could be 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 allow 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 danger to customers.”
We are able to assume from this memo that uncooked milk farmers will probably be receiving visits from officers wanting to check their milk for a non-existent virus utilizing a bogus testing methodology, simply as they’ve executed for flocks of chickens.
Fortuitously, some hen farmers have prevented this testing and prevented the slaughter of their animals by insisting that inspectors fill out two questionnaires.
- Inspector Data kind to acquire the names and speak to info of these visiting their farm (beneath).
- Questionnaire for Inspector, which asks for proof of profitable isolation of the hen flu virus, proof of contagious nature of the hen flu virus, kind of check that will probably be used and speak to info of the lab that will probably be doing the testing (beneath).
Clearly, no inspector will be capable to present the knowledge requested on the shape, info that’s the farmer’s proper to have. The hope is that they may depart and by no means come again–as they’ve with astute hen farmers.
ACTION TO TAKE: Please share these kinds together with your uncooked milk producer. We hope that these measures will stop the FDA’s deliberate shutdown of uncooked milk farmers.
Sincerely yours,
Sally Fallon Morell, President
The Weston A. Worth Basis
