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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The parent company of a Vermont cheese
producer has agreed to scale-back claims about whether its dairy
farmers use an artificially produced hormone to help their cows
produce more milk.
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The Vermont Attorney General’s office says that in 2009 and 2010
the Cabot Creamery Cooperative overstated claims that none of its
farmers used the artificial hormone known as rBST. The attorney
general’s office says some of the products made by Cabot cannot be
certified as free of rBST.
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Cabot is owned by the Methuen, Mass.-based dairy cooperative
Agri-Mark Inc.
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The state says that Agri-Mark has agreed to pay the state $65,000
and to donate $75,000 worth of dairy products to food banks. The
co-op also must accurately inform the public about “the rBST status
of its products.”
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