Survey of retail milk composition as affected by label claims regarding farm-management practices

Autor: Robin L. Staub, John L. Vicini, Penny M. Kris-Etherton, Terry D. Etherton, Daniel A. Goldstein, Matthew C. Lucy, Joan Ballam, Roger Cady, Steven Denham, M.F. McGrath
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 108(7)
ISSN: 0002-8223
Popis: A trend in food labeling is to make claims related to agricultural management, and this is occurring with dairy labels. A survey study was conducted to compare retail milk for quality (antibiotics and bacterial counts), nutritional value (fat, protein, and solids-not-fat), and hormonal composition (somatotropin, insulin-like growth factor-1 [IGF-1], estradiol, and progesterone) as affected by three label claims related to dairy-cow management: conventional, recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST)-free (processor-certified not from cows supplemented with rbST), or organic (follows US Department of Agriculture organic practices). Retail milk samples (n=334) from 48 states were collected. Based on a statistical analysis that reflected the sampling schema and distributions appropriate to the various response variables, minor differences were observed for conventional, rbST-free, and organic milk labels. Conventionally labeled milk had the lowest (P
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