Farm Hit Hard By Milk Recall

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Maple View Farm ought to be congratulated about pulling their

product off the market, even though it could strap them financially.

It just makes me wonder how much of our milk is contaminated and is

never tested for aflatoxins. It sounds like we tighter regulations.

Farm Hit Hard By Milk Recall

WRAL.com, NC

POSTED: 5:31 pm EDT August 11, 2006

UPDATED: 8:01 pm EDT August 11, 2006

http://www.wral.com/news/9668760/detail.html

ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. -- Maple View Farm is pulling a week's supply of

milk off the market and dumping it. More than 7,000 gallons --

$30,000 worth -- of milk is going down the drain after cows at the

farm ate corn that was tainted with a potentially harmful toxin.

Farm owner Bob Nutter isn't crying over the recall.

" It's a part of life, part of farming, " he said. " You get used to

the ups and downs. I've been here too long to have it have an effect

on me. "

But the longtime farmer admitted that he's worried about what will

happen to his small milk production company.

Maple View Farm bought the corn from an Orange County farmer to feed

to its dairy cows this week. Nutter said the corn was tainted with

toxic mold that can make people sick in high concentrations.

" We believe in local (farms), and I'm sure the man that sold it to

us didn't have any idea that it had aflatoxin in it, " he said.

Maple View didn't test the corn, and a microscopic amount of

aflatoxin showed up in weekly milk tests -- just enough to be higher

than strict federal guidelines. The farm got rid of the tainted

corn, and now workers are dumping everything.

The farm has 140 cows that are milked three times a day. Each

milking produces 350 gallons.

" It'll affect us for the year, " said Nutter.

It could get even worse if people are afraid to buy Maple View milk

after the recall.

" If they see the milk in the glass bottle and they think, 'That's

the milk that's bad; don't buy it,' that will be the end of us, "

said Nutter.

Nutter said Maple View Farm is doing everything it can to make

things right. The state Agriculture Department agreed.

In the end, Nutter said the company can survive this, as long as

customers keep buying.

" If customers come back, it'll be a blow but it won't be

detrimental, " he said,

The aflatoxin should work its way out of the cows this weekend.

State agricultural officials will be at the farm to test the milk on

Saturday. Maple View hopes to have fresh milk in stores as early as

Tuesday.

The recalled products are whole, skim, low-fat and chocolate milk

and heavy whipping cream with a sell-by stamp of Aug. 25. Also

included was buttermilk with a sell-by date of Sept. 5. The products

were sold in Chatham, Durham, Lee, Orange and Wake counties.

The milk was sold at stores like Teeter, Kroger, Lowes and

local markets. Grocery stores pulled the recalled milk off the

shelves. Customers who have any of these products can return them to

the stores.

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" tigerpaw2c " <tigerpaw2c@...> wrote:

> It just makes me wonder how much of our milk is contaminated and

is never tested for aflatoxins. It sounds like we tighter

regulations.

>

Mon Jan 26, 2004 1:14 pm

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Mold / Cows / Autism / Intestinal Autoimmune Response

I remember seeing a fascinating article about a link between an

intestinal autoimmune response an Autistic child and Mold by way of

cows.

A mother noticed that her Autistic child DID NOT have a reaction to a

certain kind of milk. Since the doctors had said the childs reaction

was to milk proteins, the miraculous exception to the rule caught her

attention. Amazingly enough, she found some doctors who didn't

immediately dismiss it and say " That's impossible " . After all, a

simple test of giving the child the milk demonstrated the existence

of the anomalous " lack of response " . (Don't you wish you could find

such doctors?)

An investigation showed that the intestinal autoimmune response was

to milk consumed by cows that had bovine mastitis caused by

Aspergillosis.

But the really interesting part was that the Aspergillus toxins

weren't passing through in the milk. It was the bovine immunological

response to Aspergillus that programmed the intestinal autoimmune

response in the child.

" Bovine Mycotoxin Transfer Factor " and not the presence of the toxins

caused the milk intolerance in this case.

This was an incredible way of looking at a mechanism that might

" program " a human immunological response to mycotoxins but I haven't

seen any follow up on this line of research.

And I see no reason at all that exposure to ingested mycotoxins

would not create symptoms of Crohns Disease in someone

thus " programmed " .

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