Something’s wrong with American milk and that’s rBGH

Posted on January 27th, 2008

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A couple of days back, I posted a piece on pathogenic bacteria in milk. And now comes the rBGH issue.
rBGH – it’s short for recombinant bovine growth hormone. I know that it [...]

 

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Tags: growth factor, growth hormone, IGF-1, Milk, Posilac, rBGH
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