How to avoid drinking milk that’s been ‘drugged’

Got Cipro?

Or how about sulfamethazine, another powerful antibiotic?

Turns out if you’re buying regular (non-organic) milk, you may be pouring a certified antibiotic soup on your corn flakes.

That’s what the FDA recently revealed in a new report – one that was five years in the making.

We’ve been told for years that there’s very little risk of antibiotics in our milk – but that’s not the entire story. The truth is, there’s just very little risk of our government inspectors finding antibiotics with their shoddy testing.

Cows that give milk aren’t supposed to get any antibiotics unless they’re really sick, because the drugs go right into the milk. And if they do get drugs, their milk is disposed of for several days.

So milk shipments are tested for six very common antibiotics, and are discarded if they test positive.

Now, you don’t need to be a criminal mastermind to get around this system. And back in 2010 the FDA finally got hip to what’s probably the oldest secret in the dairy industry – farms are drugging their cows with antibiotics the FDA doesn’t test for.

So the agency ordered a test for 31 different kinds of meds in milk, starting with farms that had a history of animal drug violations.

I’ll give you one guess what they found.

Some samples from the “targeted” group didn’t just turn up drug residues – they were actually laced with powerful drugs that were never approved by the FDA for use in dairy cows.

That’s why the meds didn’t turn up in the routine tests. No one was even looking for them.

On top of that, drug residues were also found in milk taken from a small number of non-targeted dairy farms – ones that weren’t under any suspicion at all.

So now that this report is out, the FDA is doing what it does best – nothing.

Because the five-year survey was called “research,” the samples were collected anonymously, and that means they can’t send any agents out to investigate.

So instead of some unscrupulous farmers crying over spilled milk, we’re being asked to drink it.

The bottom line is, if you don’t want to wait another five years for the FDA to limp into action, the solution is simple. Stick with organic milk and dairy products.

Source:

“FDA tests turn up dairy farmers breaking the law on antibiotics” Dan Charles, March 8, 2015, NPR, npr.org