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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The CEO of Fresno-based Raw Farm, LLC says he's the people of an onslaught astatine the hands of the FDA and USDA, claiming that the national agencies are targeting him for governmental reasons.
Raw beverage from the Fresno institution was the taxable of a callback successful November erstwhile the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) detected vertebrate flu microorganism successful a retail illustration of earthy beverage from Raw Farm successful Fresno. That find prompted a voluntary recall.
In December, the USDA announced nationwide beverage testing to show H5N1 vertebrate flu successful the country’s beverage supplies and dairy herds, specifically requiring that earthy (unpasteurized) beverage samples nationwide beryllium collected and shared with USDA for testing. Raw Farms CEO Mark McAfee says the risks of earthy beverage are being blown retired of proportionality owed to what helium says are the FDA's and USDA's bias against him.
"This is not astir science, this is astir politics," McAfee said. "PCR, the trial they're utilizing to trial for the microorganism cannot observe unrecorded virus, it tin lone observe dormant virus. All they recovered successful our beverage was dormant virus."
According to McAfee, the reported cases of H5N1 successful the Central Valley came from mucus workplace workers had travel successful interaction with - and had thing to bash with milk.
"This is the biggest non-story," McAfee said. "There is nary grounds that [raw beverage has] caused unwellness successful people."
McAfee claims that determination is simply a agelong database of wellness benefits related to drinking earthy beverage including, "anti-cancer, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial" properties. He says the process of pasteurization takes distant each of those properties - the aforesaid process that the FDA and USDA accidental protects consumers from the dangers of earthy milk.
McAfee adds that the resounding enactment for earthy beverage from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is acceptable to go caput of the Department of Health and Human Services successful the Trump administration, has made earthy beverage a people for the USDA and FDA. McAfee states that determination is nary technological ground for earthy beverage recalls.
"[RFK] told the FDA that if they did not clasp earthy beverage to battalion their bags," McAfee said. "So the FDA is conscionable furious that immoderate of them are going to beryllium sent down the road."
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to some the FDA and the USDA for a connection but did not person a effect successful clip for this article.
Meanwhile, farmers successful California are being advised to interaction the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s vertebrate flu hotline astatine 866-922-2473 if they fishy their animals are infected with vertebrate flu.
