Posted by hans on August 06, 1998 at 23:40:35:
In Reply to: Re: USDA Minimum Standards for Dairy Products posted by Southern on August 06, 1998 at 21:26:49:
Dear comedian of the arts,
yes, that is what i have been doing for 3 days now, sending e-mail calling FDA only to be given another number in Washington for
USDA with nobody knowing what I am talking about. Standards of identity or minimum acceptable levels of butterfat content in dairy
products. Sounds simple, no! Only nobody that I talked to seems to know anything about it. Neither Cream o'Weber dairy, nor the
NV dairy commission. Isn't that a riot. Just another sign that the bureaucracy is so bloated with regulations, they have lost sight of
what they originally came up with. They can give you the selenium level to the Nth degree in every food available and how much
vitamin E an 80 year old Samoan Islander, who is deaf, mute and suffers from sunburn, needs but not how much butterfat has to be
in ice-cream to qualify as such. That is what frustrates me. The useless crap they are spending money on, that nobody needs, not
even the 80 year old Samoan and the basic stuff is buried so deep, nobody finds it or knows about it. There is more info on area 51
available than on basic info on the composition of the foods we eat everyday.
Thanks for your reply.
Sincerely,
HWK, CMC
commediadellarte@hotmail.com wrote:
: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a website (http://www.usda.gov/usda.htm) and a search engine (http://www2.hqnet.usda.gov/Harvest/brokers/USDA/). The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has a website (http://www.fda.gov/), as does the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html). You already know this, right? But why not email these folks your questions? Couldn't hurt, might help ...