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Toronto juice firm backed for ‘cold pasteurization’

A Toronto organic juice processor that bills itself as shunning conventional pasteurization for its products has picked up federal funding to develop a “new-to-Canada” way to extend their shelf life. The federal government on Friday announced a “repayable investment” of up to $6.3 million from the AgriInnovation program for Greenhouse Juice Co. to set up

Purdue University researcher Bruce Applegate and other collaborating researchers developed a process that extends the shelf life of milk.

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Process extends milk shelf life

The new technique could reduce waste and  make distribution more efficient

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 22, 2016

Researchers at Purdue University say a new process could extend milk’s shelf life to as long as nine weeks. Bruce Applegate, an associate professor of food science, says he and other researchers rapidly heated and cooled milk, which significantly reduced the number of harmful bacteria. Applegate and collaborators from Purdue and the University of Tennessee

Purdue University researcher Bruce Applegate says the system could be tested to see if it works without pasteurization. (Purdue Agriculture Communication photo/Tom Campbell)

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Cool-temperature process extends milk shelf life

Rapid heating and cooling by 10 C

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 20, 2016

Purdue University researchers say they have developed a milk preservation system using a lower temperature than pasteurization, but providing a longer shelf life. The researchers found that increasing the temperature of milk by 10 C for less than a second and then cooling it rapidly eliminates more than 99 per cent of the bacteria left

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Common cattle virus linked to breast cancer in women

A high percentage of women with breast cancer has been exposed to the bovine leukemia virus (BLV)

By University Of California October 6, 2015

Researchers with University of California, Berkeley, are exploring a link between a common bovine virus and breast cancer in women. In a study analyzing 239 tissue samples from women diagnosed with breast cancer, scientists found 59 per cent had been exposed to the bovine leukemia virus (BLV) compared to 29 per cent of tissue samples

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Raw milk dramatically increases risk for foodborne illness

Study says risk is 100 times greater than with pasteurized milk

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 8, 2015

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Maryland have released a study which says consumers are nearly 100 times more likely to get foodborne illness from drinking raw milk than they are from drinking pasteurized milk. In a release, the researchers said raw milk was associated with over half of all

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Raw milk cheese: Another sterile debate

By Ronald Doering November 14, 2013

On Sept. 18 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed one person had died and several people in B.C. and Alberta were ill from eating E. coli-contaminated raw milk cheese produced at a B.C. farm. As soon as the recall was announced, the media went into full frenzy and the usual “debate” about the safety of

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Ontario farmer continues dairy fight

August 10, 2012

An Ontario dairy farmer is appealing his conviction of producing, selling and distributing raw milk to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Michael Schmidt, who farms northwest of Toronto, was charged in 2006 following an undercover police sting operation into his dairy business, which supplied 150 families with raw milk. Each family had paid $300 for

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Health Canada Raps Raw Milk, Again

By Alex Binkley September 15, 2011

Health Canada has issued a sternly worded warning against drinking raw milk because it could contain bacteria that can make you seriously ill. It has issued advisories about raw milk in the past. This isn t the first statement from the department about the dangers of raw milk. As usual when it releases food safety

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Pros And Cons Of Raw Milk Debated At NFU

By Daniel Winters December 16, 2010

Public health authorities would be wiser to find a way to accommodate the growing consumer demand for unpasteurized milk than pushing it underground, says an Ontario dairy farmer recently acquitted of charges related to distributing raw milk. Durham, Ont. dairy farmer Michael Schmidt said he agrees with public health officials that raw milk is risky

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Raw Milk Targeted By Regulators

By Alex Binkley May 13, 2010

Legal action in Ontario and British Columbia to reinforce bans against raw milk sales has won support from the Dairy Processors Association of Canada. “Human consumption of raw milk was one of the major sources of foodborne illnesses and a cause of infant mortality before pasteurization became widely utilized,” DPAC said in a statement. “Dairy

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Record large Canadian wheat and canola crops: Statistics Canada

CFIA updates plant protection regulations

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat ease after gains driven by Black Sea jitters

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