The product is bovine somatotropin, a natural protein found in cattle that has been artificially mass-produced in the labs of several pharmaceutical firms.
We've called for labeling of BST bovine somatotropin milk because consumers have a right to know, even though--as we said--the hormone is not an imminent health hazard.
As do at least 85% of Maine's milk producers, Nutting signs an affidavit each year vowing not to inject his cows with recombinant bovine somatotropin (RBST), a genetically .