Shatto voluntarily recalls all of its milk on shelves
Shatto milk bottles are flying off the shelves, just not in the manner to which Leroy Shatto is accustomed. The Osborn, Missouri, dairy voluntarily pulled all its milk from area stores after being contacted Wednesday by the Missouri Milk Board that several milk samples had elevated phosphate levels.
“I want to express the reason we pulled the milk is that we worry about our customers. We want to deliver nothing less than a quality product,” Shatto said when reached at his farm Thursday afternoon.
He spent most of yesterday with inspectors from the Milk Board looking at the farm’s practices and operations to try and ascertain what led to the elevated phosphates, which can indicate that milk has been improperly pasteurized or can occur if milk isn’t kept cool enough after pasteurization.
“They looked over our charts and said, why don’t you bottle up a little bit of each milk,” Shatto says. “Everything looked good. We do tests on our milk, too, and none of our tests showed anything.”
