New, environmentally unfriendly FDA proposal will hike up the price of your beer

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/20/new-environmentally-unfriendly-fda-proposal-will-hike-up-the-price-of-your-beer/



New, environmentally unfriendly FDA proposal will hike up the price of your beer
By Scott Kaufman
Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:20 EDT

New regulations about to be implemented by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) threaten to dramatically increase the price of beer across the United States.

Currently, most U.S. brewers sell a by-product of the brewing process known as “spent grain” to local dairy farms. In addition to being high in protein and fiber — which is beneficial for the cows — disposing of spent grain in this manner is considered environmentally friendly.

But, charged with making the U.S. food chain more secure by the 2011 Food Modernization and Safety Act, the FDA has proposed a rule that would classify companies that distribute spent grain to farms as “animal feed manufacturers,” which would force breweries to dry and package the material before sending it to dairy farms.

Scott Mennen, the vice president of brewery operations at Widmer Brothers Brewery in Portland told The Oregonian that forcing breweries to dry and package the spent grain “would be cost prohibitive,” averaging around $13 million per brewery. “Most brewers would have to put this material in a landfill.”

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1. Ridiculous

Good old FDA has no problem with the shit sprayed on veggies for humans however!