What is our policy on artificial bovine growth hormone (rbST)?
Darigold takes pride in providing consumers with a full line of healthy, fresh, wholesome dairy products.
Darigold, one of the Pacific Northwest’s leading farmer-owned cooperatives, understands that some consumers have voiced a concern about rbST, the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone that stimulates milk production in cows.
According to the FDA, no significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rbST and non-rbST treated cows. There is no taste difference, and currently no test is available for determining whether supplemental BST has been used.
To be responsive to consumer’s choices, Darigold has made the decision to become an rbST-free cooperative. Darigold has instituted a program that requires that the milk being provided to our processing plants is certified as coming from farms where rbST is not used.