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A little over two years ago, 3-A Sanitary Standards Inc. (3-A SSI) became aware that some companies from China were using the trademarked 3-A Symbol without authorization.

It seems like anything, your insightful comments, cat pictures, video of your coworker falling over, can be instantly shared, then spread from one smartphone, connected mind to the next, like a super-contagious flu. There rarely seems to be any rhyme or reason to their spread.

Since National Dairy Council’s inception over a century ago, the body of research linking dairy foods with reduced risk of disease has continued to grow.

"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet," Shakespeare said. But would calling foods and ingredients "bioengineered" rather than "genetically modified" make them more acceptable to consumers?

Consumers walking down the dairy aisle have their choice of many different brands and products, from traditional favorites to new offerings with novel tastes, textures, flavors and nutritional content. When they're making purchase decisions, product labels matter.

America's dairy foods industry is experiencing unprecedented change. We’re dealing with political and trade pressures, evolving consumer choice and increased competition in the food and beverage space, among other things.

The dairy processing industry is under constant pressure to improve its food safety systems. This pressure stems from improvements in public health surveillance (such as the expanded use of whole-genome sequencing) and a ramping-up of food safety requirements from regulators, further processing customers and consumers.

Cheese is a fermented product, which means that cheesemaking requires the growth of millions of bacteria, we call them starters (to start the acid development), to acidify the product. Initially, these bacteria originate from the raw milk itself (cow, milker, equipment, etc.).

There is a large (and growing) body of published nutrition research studies that affirm dairy protein's popular and proven benefits, including weight management support, muscle health maintenance in aging and post-exercise recovery enhancement.

A few years back, my family physician recommended that I be tested for bone mineral density and start taking a calcium supplement. I explained that I got my calcium from dairy and had great bones.