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Starbucks switches to hormone-free milk

January 16, 2007

SeattlePost-Intelligencer: Starbucks Coffee Co. said Tuesday that it has stopped using dairy products with Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, or rBGH, in company-owned stores in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Northern California and New England. The move likely will cause Starbucks to increase its coffee prices because rBGH is widely used in dairy farms, said Blair Thompson, a spokesman for the Washington Dairy Products Commission.