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From The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Has some pretty interesting stuff about how much of a problem there was prior to pasteurization. For instance, I had no idea that milk was one of the main vectors for transmission of tuberculosis.

is fast making my mental list of really unsafe shit... I'm sure that's headline bias, but still.

Sally Jackson Cheese of Oroville, WA is recalling all raw milk cheese products, including cow, goat, and sheep, because they may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and local health departments are conducting an investigation of a cluster of seven E. coli O157 infections. There have been no deaths, although three of the seven cases have been hospitalized. A potential association exists with the consumption of unpasteurized Baugher's apple cider.

In response to this ongoing investigation, Baugher's Orchard & Farm of Westminster, MD today issued a voluntary recall of all its apple cider because of its potential to contain the E. coli bacteria. At this time, no other Baugher's products are affected by this recall.

Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese, (Costco item 40654) offered for sale and in cheese sampling events at Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) locations is preliminarily linked with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections. This cheese is made from raw milk.

Not to harp on a topic, or anything, but *strums strings*... both of today's recalls involve unpasteurized products.

And the dairy that was earlier this year cited with causing an E. coli outbreak is now associated with both campylobacter and cryptosporidiosis infections in consumers.

Hartmann’s farm was implicated as the source of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections in May and June. As a part of this earlier illness outbreak, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) ordered Hartmann to stop selling milk until he addressed the unsanitary conditions on his farm. MDA also directed him to comply with the state law that allows for the sale of unpasteurized milk only on the farm at which the milk was produced. It is not clear how the seven new ill people acquired the product...(Minnesota Department of Health Foodborne Diseases Unit Supervisor Kirk) Smith noted that in addition to the illnesses associated with the Hartmann farm, MDH has identified 47 other people since Jan. 1, 2010 who became ill after drinking raw milk from a variety of sources throughout the state; none of these 47 cases was part of an identified outbreak (no two cases reported the same source). Most of the individual cases have been in children or young adults.

“While we are very concerned about the ongoing illnesses associated with this one farm, this isn’t just about one farm selling raw milk and making people sick,” Smith said. “This also is about the inherent risk of any raw milk. People need to think carefully about those risks before consuming raw dairy products from any source, and people need to know that the risks are especially high for young children.”

So sorry, you lose. FDA will take it away from you. Federal authorities say they've seized all the cheese from a creamery in Montesano after Estrella Family Creamery refused to recall items contaminated with listeria.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/06/minn-evidence-links-e-coli-to-raw-milk-dairy/

Of particular interest to me is that the owner (or someone representing him) says this:

"Not a single test of raw milk was found to contain any strain of E. coli," said a June 7 statement released on behalf of Michael Hartmann. Also, according to the same statement: "No claim is made that any sample from a dairy cow or the dairy barn contained any E. coli."

While the Department of Health releases results of the gel electrophoresis showing identical E. coli strain found in all of the patients, several environmental locations on the farm, and several individual cows on the farm.

Obviously, these two things are not the same, as it's pretty obvious to me that a claim IS MADE regarding samples from cows and barns on the dairy...also, it is flat f'ing ridiculous to claim that any sample involving manure contained NO E. coli. Pretty much all manure does contain E coli, it's a matter of which strain they find; some are pretty innocuous normal flora, others kill you.

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