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Raw Milk is Bad from BAD Farms
Campylobacter,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk | August 30, 2019
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is advising consumers that raw whole milk purchased from BAD Farms in Kempton may be contaminated with campylobacter bacteria and should be discarded immediately. Here’s what we know about the Campylobacter scare from Bad Farms… read more
Fido Doesn’t Need Raw Milk – Pets and Raw Milk
Food Safety,Our Blog,Raw Milk | February 14, 2019
Raw milk– what is that exactly? Wikipedia explains it as the following: Raw milk or unpasteurized milk is milk that has not been pasteurized, a process of heating liquid foods to decontaminate them for safe drinking. Proponents of raw milk… read more
Drug-Resistant Brucellosis Linked to Miller’s Raw Milk
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk | February 14, 2019
Milk offers humans a plethora of health benefits. Milk is a rich source of calcium, has high levels of protein and vast quantities of vitamins. Unfortunately though for milk lovers in the U.S, the most recent foodborne illness outbreak is… read more
Do You Have Brucella? Pennsylvania Miller’s Biodiversity Farm Linked to Brucella in 19 States
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk | February 13, 2019
The investigation to help treat all of those who were exposed to the resistant strain of Brucella in infected raw (unpasteurized) milk from Miller’s Biodiversity Farm located in Quarryville, Pennsylvania continues. This investigation was initiated after a RB51 case –… read more
Brucella and Raw Milk: A Pairing that’s a Problem
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk | February 13, 2019
Surprise! Unpasteurized milk results in illness once again. This time the raw white sustenance delivered an antibiotic-resistant strain of Brucella. This means we have a few things to talk about. So, let’s sit down and have a heart to heart about… read more
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk,Salmonella | February 12, 2019
I pride myself in being the opposite of a picky eater. In my life, I have been willing to try anything at least once and try not to judge other’s food choices. There are a lot of wonderful foods out… read more
Bruce Who? Raw Milk From Pennsylvania Linked to Brucella Infection
Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk | February 12, 2019
Raw milk is in the news again, with an outbreak no less. Is it Listeria? E. coli? Salmonella? Nope. This time for an illness known as Brucella. And not just any Brucella, but one that is resistant to first-line drugs… read more
Food Safety,Our Blog,Outbreaks & Recalls,Raw Milk | December 31, 2018
There has been a sharp increase in the number of Salmonella cases in San Diego county. Through mid-December, the county observed 730 verified Salmonella cases. Public Health officials are saying that cases related to this bacteria are at a 25-year… read more
Goat Meat – The Most Popular Protein in the World?
Food Safety,Our Blog,Raw Milk | December 7, 2018
What’s the most popular animal worldwide for eating? It isn’t the cows, whose flatulent methane output makes them the second major greenhouse-gas producing species in the world after humans. It isn’t pigs, who are smarter than you think and have… read more
Confusing Laws Around Raw Milk
E. coli,Food Safety,Raw Milk | June 28, 2018
An E. coli outbreak, believed to be tied to raw milk, has sickened 12 children in Knox County, Tennessee. Of those twelve, four went into kidney failure as result of infection and had to be treated in an intensive care… read more