A bill to close Tennessee’s raw milk loophole is dead, killed when it was assigned to the General Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee.
The Tennessee General Assembly is now just hours away from adjournment for the year. It is not doing anything about 2018’s Knox County outbreak
Continue Reading Tennessee gambles by leaving raw milk loophole open for another year
Tennessee State Sen. Richard Briggs, R-Knoxville, is not giving up on his bill to eliminate the cow-share loophole and regulate raw milk sales in the state.
His bill to do that, however, is hung up a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. Senate Bill 0015 has not received
Continue Reading Tennessee state senator still working on closing herd-share loophole
Raw milk distributed from French Broad Farm in East Knox County, TN, through a cow share program sickened a dozen children this past summer. After the E. coli outbreak, the farm shut down the cow-share program.
State Sen. Richard Briggs, R-Knoxville, thinks the time has come to end the cow-share
Continue Reading Tennessee Senate considers closing raw milk loophole; sponsor cites outbreaks
UPDATE — 7:15 p.m. EDT: Knox County officials have issued a public warning, naming French Broad Farm in Knoxville, TN, as the source of unpasteurized, raw milk that is linked to an ongoing E. coli outbreak. All raw milk or other unpasteurized products from the farm should be thrown away.
Continue Reading Dairy named: Raw milk, farm animals likely cause of new E. coli outbreak among children
