4Life's Transfer Factor Product Safety statement

4Life's Transfer Factor Product Safety statement

December 2003
This announcement is about the procedures 4Life follows to ensure the safety of its Transfer Factor products. Our primary focus is your health and safety and you can rest assured that 4Life adheres to a strict set of guidelines intended to ensure the quality of the products we offer.

All 4Life Transfer Factor products are obtained from licensed Grade A dairies that are registered with and monitored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). These modern, state-of-the-art facilities follow stringent Good Manufacturing Practices and are part of an elite group who have been registered to export milk products into the European Union (EU) following the strict regulation changes that were put into effect after January 1, 2001. A press release by the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General of the EU said, "The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) sees no evidence for the transmission of BSE through milk (emphasis and italics added). Hence, there is no reason for restriction on the use of milk stated the 16 independent scientists."

Dr. William Hennen, Chief Scientific Officer of 4Life Research states, "We take great care to provide products that are safe and beneficial to our friends, customers and families. BSE (mad cow disease) has been known for more than ten years and we have evaluated all potential risk factors thoroughly. There is no scientific evidence that milk or colostrum pose any risk for BSE transmission. Nor were there any cases of BSE transmission between infected cows and their suckler calves. The most recent data continues to confirm that milk and colostrum are safe and free of BSE."

You can feel confident that 4Life will continue to monitor this situation closely and to communicate any additional information on a timely basis.

Are they treated with any kind of hormones?
Milk production in the United States is very, very tightly regulated. Any individual who is a dairy farmer who supplies milk to a creamery, that milk is tested for antibiotic levels, pesticide levels, herbicide levels, etc. Any trace of these that show up would result in the milk being rejected. Farmers who have tried to bring cows back into production prior to allowing the antibiotics that may have been used, say the cow got sick and was treated with an antibiotic. If they do not wait out the full length of time for the cow to flush that antibiotic out from its system, then it shows up in the milk supply, that farmer will loose his right to deliver milk to that creamery and in that sense his income. They are very careful about what they do in that regard. Loss of production from a whole herd because of bringing in a cow treated with antibiotics would be economically disastrous to a farmer.

In addition when you are looking at the cattle, questions are asked relative to the use of bovine growth hormone products for increased milk production. Many of the farmers that we have discussed this issue with and many of the dairyman's associations indicate that that treatment with the bovine growth hormone to increase milk production creates quite a strain on the animal and will actually reduce production in the next season. From that stand point it is seldom used. In addition, bovine growth hormone is only used in about, for those farmers who do use it, the third trimester of milk production. At the point that the cow delivers her calf, that is when her milk production will be at its peak. To use a bovine growth hormone at that point to generate an even higher would be counter productive and would be very damaging to the animal. From that stand point the collection of Transfer Factor and the first milk that is produced by the cow after a portion is given to the calf to protect it, the excess is then harvested for production of Transfer Factor. That material is essentially free of all hormone additives simply because that's the time when cattle are normally grazed. That is the cleanest time to collect milk for consumption and in this case colostrum for consumption.

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