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Challenge dairy goes rbST-free

By Ag Weekly
Aug 16, 2007
Aug 16, 2007

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DUBLIN, Calif. — Challenge Butter, the largest selling butter brand in the Western United States, will no longer produce and sell products made with milk from cows not treated with rbST, a synthetic hormone used to stimulate milk production in dairy cows.

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