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Raw Product Quality - Transfer Factor™
By Richard H Bennett, Ph.D.
Expert in Infectious Disease Microbiology

As the interest in 4Life™ Research Transfer Factor™ products increases globally, questions arise from time to time about the quality of the raw ingredients, especially the colostrum from which Transfer Factor™ is extracted.

In response to the questions, the following points are considered:

1. All of the dairy herds that produce colostrum for processing are US FDA and USDA Grand A dairy farms. As such the farm and milk must meet the standards of state and federal milk quality ordinances, including the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO). These state and federally inspected farms produce milk for the Grade A Fluid Milk Market. Milk from these farms is sold in the market.

2. It is unlawful to use antibiotics in lactating dairy cattle that will give rise to violable levels of antimicrobial drugs. All tanker truckloads of milk are tested in all processing plants for violable residues. Contaminated milk cannot be used for fluid or processing milk purposes. The financial penalties are severe and dairy producers have redundant management schemes in place to assure that residues do not occur. USDA and FDA statutes prohibit use of antibiotics as a feed supplement in lactating dairy cattle.

3. Our inquiry revealed that the dairy farms that produce raw colostrum for processing do not use hormones intended to increase milk production, including rBST.

4. All colostrum is pasteurized in a proprietary process to assure its microbial safety and quality. Moreover, the ultra-filtration process will remove all known microorganisms. Once dried the powder is tested for viable microbes.

5. The agent associated with "Mad Cow Disease" (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE) has NOT been identified in the United States dairy herd. Additionally, there is no evidence of milk borne transmission in the English experience with BSE and the 36 Crutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (CJD) patients.

6. All other ingredients in the Transfer Factor™ product line are "Food Grade" as defined by the US FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and meet the US FDA GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) definition.

7. All products and processing meet the requirements of the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPS) Ordinance.