Description

Find out what hormones are added to milk and why, and whether these are safe for you.

Transcript

Mark: Hi I'm Mark; I'm 42 I'm from Denver Colorado. And I have heard a story about dairy farmer is using steroids and hormones in dairy milk, and I was wondering if there were any industry standards for that? Lawrence Cheskin: Well Mark, Milk is tested for antibiotics because they are some times needed for the cows on the other hand hormones there is no general accepted level that is considered to acceptable the government has said that adding fruits is to common in bull wine growth hormone is generally safe but there are lots of people who are concerned about that. And as for as I know there are no specific industry standards but they are widely used hormones, there are also natural hormones the curd milk from the cow but these are additional ones that we have to increase milk production.