While government agencies in the US are taking a cautious approach to raw milk, across the Atlantic, the UK’s Food Standards Agency is preparing to consider proposals that would give consumers wider access to raw milk.

As the price of milk reached record highs earlier this year, dairy exporter Fonterra announced it expects a sharp decline in cost saying there is more milk available for the international market to absorb.

Straying outside the norm, creativity and ingenuity were rewarded at the 2014 Most Innovative Dairy Products Competition which presented top awards to a cucumber dill cottage cheese and caramel apple flavored milk.

The Kraft Foods Group is voluntarily recalling 1.2 million cases of cottage cheese as a precautionary measure.

The company will replace sorbic acid with a natural mold inhibitor.