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[email protected] Associated Milk Producers Inc. Bongards’ Creameries Laurie Lenkel, R. Ph., J.D. California Dairies, Inc. Director, Office of the Ombudsman Cayuga Marketing FDA Office of the Commissioner Cooperative Milk 10903 New Hampshire Ave. Producers Association Bldg. 32, Room 4213 Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Silver Spring, MD 20993 Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery Dear Dr. Lenkel, FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative First District Association This letter is submitted on behalf of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), Foremost Farms USA which is based in Arlington, Virginia, and was founded in 1916 to provide a forum for Land O’Lakes, Inc. U.S. dairy farmers and the dairy cooperatives they own to participate in public policy 1 Lone Star Milk Producers discussions. For more than 100 years, NMPF has been engaged in public policy matters Maryland & Virginia to advance the well-being of the U.S. dairy farmers, the dairy cooperatives they own, Milk Producers Cooperative Association and the consuming public. The members of NMPF’s farmer-owned dairy cooperatives Michigan Milk produce roughly two-thirds of all U.S. milk, making NMPF the voice of dairy producers Producers Association on Capitol Hill and with governmental agencies, including the Food and Drug Mount Joy Farmers Administration (FDA). Cooperative Association Northwest Dairy Association In NMPF’s Citizen Petition filed with FDA on Feb. 21, 2019, NMPF asked FDA to take Oneida-Madison Milk enforcement and regulatory actions to stop the continued proliferation and marketing of Producers Cooperative unlawfully labeled nutritionally inferior non-dairy substitutes for standardized dairy Association Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.