date:Mar 08, 2013
t Food, the nation's fourth-largest dairy producer, has invested in dairy farms over the past few years in line with government requirements that dairy producers control their supply sources.
A 2008 scandal in which at least 6 babies died and 50,000 were hospitalized after drinking formula tainted with the chemical melamine was blamed in part on dairy processors' practice of buying milk from small, independent dairy farmers.
Over 70 percent of Bright Food's raw milk supply is from its own farm