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Helium
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
Life isn’t fair for nurses.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
Perhaps the FDA should also consider restricting the sale of raw eggs. My guess is more people get sick from raw eggs than raw milk. Raw meat should be banned too.
But the most surprising line in that story to me is that raw milk costs $10 per gallon. That’s more than 3 times what I pay for a gallon of pasteurized milk.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Our government at work!
“A joint CDC and FDA statement implicated raw milk in 45 outbreaks from 1998 to 2005 in which people became sick from various bacteria.”
If 45 people became sick over a 7-year period, that is slightly more than 1 person every other month (out of a country of 300 million).
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:30 am
Devon, you are comparing apples and oranges. The relevant statistic is the number who became sick versus the number who drank unpasturized milk — which must be significantly lower than 300 million.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Tom, I agree the risk is very low. I didn’t mean to suggest 300 million actually drank the milk. Rather, out of a country of 300 million the CDC and FDA should have higher priorities than worrying about the person who will (theoretically) become sick — every other month — from drinking raw milk.
I recently saw a show on PBS that explained how French cheese makers actually hire private firms to test their milk (most of which comes from cooperatives) since many types of traditional French cheese is made from raw milk.