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"State Regulators Who ... Conduct Their Prosecution Of Milk Producers Through The Media"
"The Minnesota Departments of Health and Agriculture along with the media have all blamed raw milk from the Hartmann Dairy for ... several cases of foodborne illness without ... evidence."
By Gary K. Wood
Date: 6/12/2010 2:32:26 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 2498 times "The family had not received any information from any consumer about concerns, or allegations of E. coli contamination of any food product until the farm was subjected to the execution of a search warrant by the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health."
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/news/news-mn-hartman-wood.htm
"press release from Mike Hartmann
What follows is a statement on behalf of Michael Hartmann, owner of Hartmann Dairy Farm, and his family in response to a number of news reports that milk from the farm has made people ill.
The Minnesota Department of Health served a motion to condemn and destroy embargoed natural food on Michael, Diane, and Roger Hartmann on Saturday, June 5, 2010. This is the first notice given to the Hartmann's that samples taken from the Hartmann property were tested and the results of those tests.
Not a single test of raw milk was found to contain any strain of e.coli.
The seven page Petition alleges at paragraph 6 that "23 samples from dairy and meat products and 80 samples from animals and the environment" were taken.
According to the warrant inventory, no samples were taken from any meat product.
All meat is inspected at a licensed custom meat processing site by an individual with over 10 years of USDA meat inspection experience.
At paragraph 9, the State wrote in the Petition that of the 103 samples tested, 9 samples tested positive for e.coli, a bacteria found in the lower intestines of virtually all mammals. Of the 9 samples, none was from any milk cow; 4 calves manure (not milked), manure from a cow pen (beef cows, not dairy, not milked), manure from a pasture for dry cows (not milked), manure from a steer yard (steers are not milked), manure from 2 heifers (not milked), and manure from one sheep (not milked). No claim is made that any sample from a dairy cow or the dairy barn contained any e.coli.
Two samples of cheese, one cheddar and one herb and spice Gouda, made from raw milk were found to contain a strain of e.coli that the state could not identify as e.coli 0157:H7. A third positive test for an unidentified strain of e.coli
was taken from a bucket of clean-up rinse water. As everyone knows, cheese is intentionally cultured with bacteria to create the product and until a specific strain is identified there is no evidence of contamination.
As of today, there is no evidence of any harmful bacteria in any raw milk, cheese, meat or other product sampled from the Hartmann farm. The State has engaged in a serious regulatory and potentially criminal action in a grossly negligent manner with total disregard for the defamatory content of their media campaign."
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