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New Test For Detecting Fake Organic Milk

Scientists in Germany are reporting development of a new, more effective method to determine whether milk marketed as “organic” is genuine or just ordinary milk mislabeled to hoodwink consumers.

In the study, Joachim Molkentin and colleagues point out that organic milk has soared in popularity in many countries. Sales in Germany, for instance, rose by almost one-third between 2006 and 2007. Consequently, crooks may take advantage of the situation by marketing increasing quantities of fake organic milk. That situation created a need for better tests to detect the fraud.

To address the issue, the scientists developed a test based on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon. They used it to identify milk samples from cows raised on feed containing a higher ration of maize. Such a feeding regimen is typical of conventional milk production.

Organically raised cows are fed less maize but more pasture feed. In addition, the team identified a significant difference in the alpha-linolenic acid content of milk fat between organic and conventional milk samples. Organic milk typically has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than conventional milk.

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81 Comments for “New Test For Detecting Fake Organic Milk”

  1. German scientists have come up with a way to find out if some milk is really organic or if it is just a good way to advertise. The reason why is because in countries organic milk has made a good profit so some people take fake organic milk and try to con people into buying it. Scientists have made a test on which they examine the milk fat for the ratio of chemicals of carbon. They also looked at cows that feed on a higher portion of maize, and then cows that feed on less maize but ones that eat from pastures. The cows that pasture feed are the ones with organic milk instead of the ones that consume a high amount of maize.

  2. Julia Harrelson 5th period

    Scientists in Germany are coming up with a better way to find out if some crooks are making fake organic milk.
    Organic milk is very popular in many countries such as Germany.
    Crooks have made fake organic milk to get money.
    They use samples from orgaiclly raised cows to see if the milk is really organic or not.
    The difference between a organic cow & a regular cow is that organiclly raised cows are fed more pasture fed.

  3. madison extine-5th period

    A guy in germany made up anew way to tell if it is a organic or a or hood wink consomers. Organic milk is populer in many cuontries.In 2006 between 2007 the marked the milk as a fake organic.They had to run better test to see if it was a fake. They feed the cows lees to make the milk mor organic.

    p.s. sorry i gave you the rong email address on my sylabis it is madibone@piratescovemarine

  4. Michael Worshim-6th

    In germany the sales for organic milk increased almost by one-third between 2006-2007.

    German scientists made a test based on an examination of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon.

    Cows raised organically are fed less corn but more grass.

    The team recognizied a meaningful difference in the alpha-linolenic acid content of milk fat between organic and conventional milk samples.

    Conventional milk has typically a lower alpha-linolenic acid content than organic milk.

  5. hunter webber 6th period

    1.Germany is make a new methed to tell with milk is normal or organic.
    2. Joachim Molkentin can point out that has gotten big in there countrie.
    3. scientists are makeing tests on analysis the milk.
    4. normal cows don’t eat alot of mazie in there food.
    5. Organic milk has laot of higher alpha-linolenic acid content aposed to origanl milk.

  6. James Russell 6th

    Organic milk has soared in popularity in many countries.
    Sales in Germany have gone up almost one third in 2006–2007.
    They made a new better test to detect the fake milk.
    Organically raised cows are fed less maize.
    Organic milk has a higher acid content than regular milk.

  7. In this article I learned that German scientists have come up with a way to see if some milk is really organic or if it is conventional milk. The reason why is because organic milk has become popular in some countries and people are making conventional milk and saying it is organic to make a few extra bucks. I thought it was interesting how the scientists came up with a test to find out which milk is organic and which milk is conventional. They look at what cows eat. Cows that pasture feed produce organic milk. Cows that feed on a high portion maize produce mainly conventional milk.

  8. they are trying to run a test on the milk to see if its fake

  9. They are saying that the organic milk has low fat an the fake milk has high fat.

  10. They said that Organic milk typically has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than conventional milk.

  11. They Organically raised cows are fed less maize but more pasture feed.

  12. they study, Joachim Molkentin and colleagues point out that organic milk has soared in popularity in many countries.

  13. 1. “Organic” is exact or ordinary milk mislabeled to hoodwink drinkers of the fake organic milk.

    2. Naturally raised cows are fed less of what they should be eating and more of what they shouldn’t be eating.

    3.Organic milk has fallen in popularity in many countries.

  14. Article Summary

    1.Organic milk has gotten popular in many countries.
    2.Crooks may take advantage of the situation by marketing increasing quantities
    of fake organic milk.
    3.Sientists developed a test based on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon.
    4.Organically raised cows are fed less maize but more pasture feed.
    5.Organic milk typicaly has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than convintional milk.

  15. Latraza Horton 6th period

    New Test For Detecting Fake Organic Milk.

    Scientist in germany are studying a new method to identify if ”organic” milk is really organic milk or if its regular milk with a different lable to hoodwink consumers.

    Joachim Molkentin pointed out that ”organic” milk is very popular in different countries. Crooks my take advantage of the situation and raise the prices for ”organic” milk. So they started to create test to detect milk fraud.

    To confront the issue,created a test based on the fat in ”organic” milk and real
    milk.

    They also sample cow milk with the higher ratio of maize.
    Organic milk typically has a morealpha-linolenic acid content than regular milk.

  16. Scientists in Germany are reporting they made a new way to tell whether milk is organic or not.

    Sales in Germany increased by one-third between 2006 and 2007 which increased the quantities of fake organic milk.

    Scientists made a test based on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio for stable isotopes of carbon.

    Stable isotopes identified milk samples from cows raised on feed with higher ration of maize.

    The differences in organic milk and normal milk are the cows are fed less maize and has a highter alpha-linolenic acid content.

  17. New Test For Detecting Fake Organic Milk
    Sceintist are reporting people faking organic milk. They noticed that organic milk has soared in popularity in many countries. Organic milk is also more expensive.To stop it sceintists developed a test based on an analysis of milk fat cause organically raised cows are fed less maize.

  18. This article is about a new test detecting fake organic milk.
    -Organic milk has become extremely popular in many countries.
    -Crooks might take advantage of the milk situation by marketing large quantities of fake organic milk.
    -Scientists did a test on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon.
    - Organically raised cows are fed less maize and more pasture feed than others.
    -Organic milk usually has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than conventional milk.

  19. Cassidy McCarter-4th

    German scientists have found a new way to determine wheather milk is really organic. Organic milk has become very popular in many countries.Crooks may take advantage of the situation by labeling regular milk as organic because of this. This caused scientists to create a better device to determine wheather its true organic or fake.Organic milk typically has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than normal milk

  20. Scientists in germany have found a new way to tell real organic milk from false labled organic milk. Since organic milk has become very popular people have been cheating and making false labled organic milk. To stop this, scientists started a test based analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon. organic cows eat less maise and more pasture feed. organic milk has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than regular milk.

  21. Xavier Robinson 4th period

    Did you know that scientist in Germany are reporting development of a new, more effective method to determine if milk marketed as ”organic” is real or not. Also scientist point out that organic milk has soard in popularity in many countries. As an example sales in Germany rose by almost one-third between 2006 and 2007. Crooks market fake milk though. But luckily scientist have invented a new test to prevent that.

  22. John Baudendistel - 4th Period

    This is my article summary for August 17, 2009.

    I learned from this article that organically raised cows are more fed from pasture food. I also learned that organic milk is very popular in Germany. I learned that crooks are taking advantage of organic milk to market fake organic milk. I learned that organic milk is typically better with higher alpha linolenic acid content. I am glad scientists developed this test.

  23. Scientists have discovered a new way to test and see if the milk is real or fake organic milk that peaple lie about to get others to buy thyre product.They do this because the sale in organic milk has soared in Germany and some people thought they schould take advantage of it.the test is based on milk fat.They had used it to identify samples from cows raised on feed with higher rations of maise. Organicly raised cows have less maise so they found a large difference.

  24. Crystal Whitehouse --- 6th Period

    German scientists are reporting development of a very effective method to see if milk marketed as ‘organic’ is genuine or just regular milk mislabeled to hoodwink customers.

    Organic milk has soared in popularity in many countries like Germany.

    The conscequence is that crooks may take advantage of this and increase quantaties of fake organic milk; this situation created a need for betting testing to detect fraud.

    To help fix this issue, the scientists developed a test based on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon. (they used it to identify samples of milk from cows raised on feed containing a bigger ration of maize.)

    Organic milk typically has a bigger alpha-linolenic acid content than conventional milk.

  25. Jenna Marshall 1st period

    1.Scientists in Germany are reporting development of a new way to see whether milk marketed as “organic” is really really organic or just mislabeled that way to trick customers.

    2.Organic milk has soared in population in many countries

    3.Crooks may take advantag of that by marketing increasing quantities of fake organic milk

    4.Scientists have made an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of isotopes of carbon

    5.Organiclly raised cows don’t get fed as much maize but they get more pasture time

  26. Rachel whorton 2nd

    1. Scientists in Germany are reporting fake organic milk.
    2. they are making a more effective way to see weather the milk marked as organic is genuine or is just mislabeled.
    3. crooks may take advantage of this by marketing more fake quantities of fake milk.
    4. to address this issue scientists developed a test based on analysis of milk fat ratio of stable isotopes of carbon.
    5. Organically raised cows are fed less maize but more pasture feed.

  27. 1. Scientists are doing tests to prove if Some consumers are giving them Fake milk
    2.In Germany and other countrys Milk sales are going way up which are raising more fake consumers
    3.The test is on milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes
    4. the old test was based on Milk production
    5.The new test is supposed to help figure out

  28. Andrew Hall 1st Period

    This is a great discovery because the crooks ( as it explains above) could just make fake “organic” milk and sell them for the price of real organic milk. if they had not mde this discovery, the crooks could get rich, and thats not good.

  29. Kaila Polon 4th Period

    Scientists in Germany are reporting the making of a new, better way to determine whether milk labled as “organic” is true or false. Joachim Molkentin and his coworkers say that organic milk is high in popularity in many countries.They say that some people may be taking advantage of that and labling organic milk when its really not. To stop the issue they made a test based on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon, whiched they used cows to see if it was the same.Organic cows eat differently than reagular and all in all organic milk has a higher chance of being bought.

  30. grant butler 6th period

    1. People are conning people with fake organic milk.
    2. milk is popular in germany
    3.scientist are testing on organic
    4.identfied milk samples from cows
    5.organic cows eat different from other cows

  31. Tara Harville- 1st per.

    1. German scientist are figuring out a new method to see if organic milk is special or if it is just a mishap in labeling.
    2. In current studies scientist have discovered organic milk is very popular.
    3. Scientist in Germany are figuring out a good way to tell if crooks are making fake organic milk.
    4. Organic cows are fed less than regular dairy cows.
    5. Oganic milk usually has higher alpha-linolinec in it.

  32. Reagan Locke 4th

    German scientists found a way to test milk if it is really organic or not. The reason being is in some countries organic milk has become popular, but it might really be regular milk. Scientists created a test on analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon. They used it to identify milk samples from cows. Cows that are raised organically are fed more pasture feed and less maize.

  33. Amanda Baer-Peckham 4th period

    Did you know you could be buying regular milk that’s marked organic for more money than its worth? This is happening because organic milk has made a big hit in some countries. Since this is happening crooks decided to take advantage of this situation and market fake organic milk. Well scientists are trying to find out a way if your organic milk is actually organic or if it’s just plain old milk. Scientist test milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon. They use this test to identify milk samples from cows that are fed with more maize then others. Scientist can now tell that organic milk has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content unlike regular milk that has less of that content.

  34. 1. Scientists in Germany are reporting a way to tell if organic milk is fake.

    2. Sales in Germany rose bye one-third between 2006-2007.

    3. Organically raised cows eat more pasture than maize.

    4. Organic milk has a higher alpha linolenic acid content than convectional milk.

    5. Scientists have made analysis of milk fat for tge ratio of isotopes of carbon.

  35. 1.Scientists in germany are studing a way to tell if organic milk is fake.

    2.Sales in germany rose by one third during the yer 2006-2007

    3.Organic cows are fed less maize and more pasture.

    4. Scientists made a test on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon.

    5. Organic milk has more alpha-linolenic than regular milk.

  36. amari anderson 1st period

    1. scientists in germany have found out a way tofind out if milk is organic or not.
    2. a german scientist and a group of coleges said that organic milk is very popular in many countries.
    3. many crooks like to sale fake organic milk for a higher price than real organic milk really is. So he is making tests to determine this fraud.
    4. to make this tests scientist are testing the fat for the the ratio of isotopes on the carbon.
    5. They suplied this by using milk freshly from cows.

  37. Devin Platts 1st period

    1.Scientists in Germany made a new way to figure out if milk that is in the stores are organic or if it is just regular milk.
    2.Sales in Germany raised by about one-third between 2006 and 2007.
    3.The scientist made a test on the analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon.
    4.Organically raised cows are fed less food but are more pasture feed.
    5.Organic milk usually has a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than regular milk.

  38. Chase Massey-5th Period

    1. Organically raised cows are fed less maize but more pasture feed.
    2. Crooks could take advantage of the situation by marketing increasing quantities of fake organic milk.
    3. Organic milk typically has a higher alpha-linolegenic acid content than conventional milk.
    4. Scientists used an analisis to identify milk samples from cows raised on feed containing a higher ration of maize.
    5. Sales in Germany rose by almost one-third between 2006 and 2007.

  39. Summer Berthelson-4th period 8/11/09

    German scientist are finding a way to see if orirganic milk is really organic. Organic milk sales have skyrokated in a year. So crooks had this great idea to sell fake organic milk. The cows raised organiclly are fed mainlly on pasture grass than maize. The “organic” milk can be tested by the ratio of fat in the milk.

  40. Mauhaun Taheri 1rst period

    1. Studies say organic milk might be fake.
    2. Today milk is being bought a lot in Germany.
    3. Scientist have tests about milk fat.
    4. They tested cows by higher rations of maize.
    5.Organic cows are fed less maize than other cows.

    You rock Mrs. Davis!!!!!!!!!!!!

  41. People in Germany say there is a new way to determan wether or not milk is orgianic or people are just saying it is. Crooks may take advantage of of you by marketing increasing quantities of fake oganic milk. Becouse of this scientsts developed a test based on analysis of milk fat.They used it to identify mil samplesfrom cows raised on feed contianing a higher ration of maize. Organic cows are feed more pasture grass then mazie.

  42. Connor Ferguson 1 period

    1.Sentists in Germany are trying to figure out how to detect fake organic milk.
    2.Organic milk is popular in many countries.
    3.Crooks try to take advantage of people by selling fake organic milk.
    4.Scientists developed a test based on an analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes in carbon.
    5.Organic milk usually has a higher content of alpha-linolenic acid than regular milk.

  43. Keenan Drake 5Th period

    1.)Scientists in germany are testin milk to see if it is organic or fake milk.

    2.)They found alpha linolenic acid in the milk fat.

    3.)Joachim Molkentin said that organic milk has rose in alot of countries.

    4.)Did you know that organic milk has higher alpha linolenic than conventional milk.

    5.)Crooks may take advantage of marketing fake organic milk.

  44. The Germany scientist are devolping a new effective whether milk market as “organic”…
    Joachim Molkentin and colleagues has pointed out organic milk…
    The crooks may take advantge with the organic milk…
    The Germany scientist developed a test on an analysis of milk…
    Organically raised cows that were fed less…

  45. Scientists in Germany are reporting a new method to determine whether milk marketed as “organic” is genuine or just ordinary milk. In the study, Joachim Molkentin and colleagues point out that organic milk has soared in popularity in many countries. To adress the issue, scientists developed a test based of the analysis of milk fat for the ratio of stable isotopes of carbon. They used it to identify samples from cows raised on feed containing a higher ration of maize. That is five facts that i learned from the article.

  46. Raine Aslan - 4th period

    1. Scientists in Germany have found a new way to find out whether milk labeled as organic is real or just regular milk advertized as organic to trick customers.
    2. Organic milk has soared in popularity.
    3. People are selling fake organic milk so people will buy it.
    4. German scientists use samples from organically raised cows to see if the milk is really organic or not.
    5. The alpha-linolenic acid content in organic milk is higher than in conventional milk.

  47. Allison Dreisewerd - 4th period

    German scientists are trying to find a more effective way to tell wether milk labled as organic is real organic milk. Organic milk has rose in popularity in the last couple of years. Crooks may be taking advantage of the situation by marketing increasing quantities of fake organic milk. The scientists developed a test based on an analysis of milk fat. This is a great way to test wether organic milk is real organic milk. Also another way to tell is wether the milk has typically a higher alpha-linolenic acid content than conventional milk.

  48. gabrielle covey 5 period

    German scentists have reported a new developement that orgainc milk is being mislabeled. Organic milk is very popular in many countries. Sales in Germanys sales for organic milk went up almost one-third between 2006 and 2007. Crook are taking advantageof the fact of mislabed milk. In that situation there was need to creat better tests to see if the milk was mislabed.

  49. Maysie Spears 4th period

    A few scientists in Germany have discovered that there is a new developement that organic milks are being mislabled. This seems to be very disapointing to some people because it has gotten so popular over the last couple years. Some say that people are takinging advantage over this and selling non-organic milk but labling it organic to make more money. So scientists needed to come up with a new test to get some infrmation on organic milk.The scientist have developed a test to find wether or not milk is really orgainic due to the crooks.

  50. deondre surles 6th period

    German scientist have invented organic milk.

    Organic milk is famous in other countries.

    The sales of organic milk went up one thirds between 2006 and 2008.

    Some people will try to make organic milk and sale it.

    Scientist gets it from cows to see if its real.

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