Whole Foods Thursday recalled Morningland Dairy and Ozark Hills Farm Raw Goat Milk Mild Cheddar Cheese for possible contamination with Listeria and Staphylococcus aureus.
No illnesses have yet been associated with the recall.
The contamination was discovered during routine regulatory sampling. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Missouri…
An E. coli O157:H7 and campylobacter outbreak linked to raw goat milk from a Colorado dairy is now tied to 24 illnesses, including two children who required hospitalization, according to the Boulder County Public Health Department.
The outbreak has been linked to Billy Goat Dairy in Longmont, near Boulder, Colorado.
It could be ‘forever’: Whole Foods and PCC Natural Foods pull raw milk from dairy departments
In an unexpected “super-sized” version of its announcement last month that it wouldn’t be selling any more raw milk until it developed a consistent set of national standards, Whole Foods has recently gone a…
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Based on the growing popularity of raw milk, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture has been keeping track of the regulation and sale of raw milk in the United States.
According to the association’s most recent updated survey released in April 2008, 29 states allowed the legal sale…
Raw milk-related bacterial outbreaks have been an unfortunate and expanding part of business at Marler Clark. Although not an every year occurrence, and we do not get retained in all outbreaks, raw milk illnesses seem to be on the rise. And, because the proponents of the consumption of raw milk…
Raw milk, for its proponents, brings images of grandpa’s idyllic farm – Bessie being milked as the cats meow around her legs. For the FDA and state and local health officials, raw milk brings up a different image: people sickened – mainly children – sickened by E. coli O157:H7, Campylobacter…
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