If a few American dairy processors have their way with the agbiz-pliant U.S. Department of Agriculture, American consumers will be buying milk, cheese and other dairy products altered with items not approved as food ingredients by the Food and Drug Administration.
Milk protein concentrates. In fact, most Americans are already buying and consuming dairy products that contain a dairy derivative, milk protein concentrates, or MPCs, not “Generally Recognized as Safe,” by the FDA.
Moreover, according to a proposed rule published in the Oct. 19 Federal Register, milk’s big boys also want to alter the recipe for cheese making to include “ultrafiltered milk,” a product, they argue, “will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers and
