Milk Blog
The good milk update: Masson’s Blog has coverage of Senate Bill 219 :
It requires state and local government to provide for reasonable paid breaks for an employee to express breast milk for the employee’s infant child; to make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location in close proximity to the work area where the employee can express the employee’s breast milk in privacy; and to make reasonable efforts to provide for a refrigerator or other cold storage for keeping breast milk that has been expressed.
Breast Milk: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
The “bad” milk? Remember I told you about House Bill 1300, a bill that would have barred companies from advertising their milk products as hormone free (here and here). Well, the supporters of this measure (who makes these hormones?, I wonder) have started in on Senate Bill 123. This bill now provides that the Indiana state board of animal health review, study and make recommendations about the claims made about milk and milk products marketed to the general public. The report would be due to the legislative counsel by November 15, 2008.
For background on this issue, I’ll point you to this video that tells the tale of how a story on hormones in milk for killed off Fox news when a manufacturer allegedly got upset: FOX News Whistle blowers.
