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Pennsylvania: State Reverses on Dairy Labeling, Allows Hormone Claims

By Daniel Malloy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 2008

After an October ban on certain types of dairy labeling caused an outcry, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture backed down yesterday, reaching a compromise to allow claims that milk is from cows not injected with a controversial hormone.

The department had banned "absence labeling" on milk containers, which included claims that the milk was from cows not treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone, also called recombinant bovine somatotropin or rbST.

But in a decision that was hailed by consumer advocates, milk producers in Pennsylvania now may put labels on their milk saying that it comes from cows not treated with rbST.

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