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Avaisraging439 t1_j28i61e wrote

Reply to comment by gslavik in Pennsylvania Dairy Farmer Decides to Bottle His Own Milk Rather than Dump It. Sells Out in Hours with Westmoreland residents support by ProfessionalDavidson

Local milk farmers around me who sell direct also don't pasteurize which seems like a massive risk.

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choodudetoo t1_j28ohov wrote

In Pennsylvania a farmer can get a legal permit to sell raw unpasteurized milk. The permit requires extra testing for bacteria, especially listeria, which is a bacteria that is not affected much by refrigeration.

So permitted farmers are managing the risks.

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MCRNRearAdmiral t1_j29unj0 wrote

Can confirm Listeria is NOT affected by refrigeration in the least. While I don’t subscribe to the notion that a non-young child/ non-immunocompromised person should blanket-avoid raw milk, the threat in things like deli meat and hot dogs too is real.

https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborne-pathogens/listeria-listeriosis#:~:text=Foods%20Linked%20to%20U.S.%20Outbreaks,L.

Want to see how the smart folks in Food Science use viruses to actually combat the Listeria bacterium?

https://www.wired.com/2006/08/fda-oks-viruses-to-treat-food/amp

Now go pour yourselves a nice glass of raw milk!

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Avaisraging439 t1_j28onk0 wrote

To be fair, my grandfather in law drinks raw milk from a couple farms down and has never gotten sick, not certain if they do testing but that farm sells to the processing companies instead of direct to consumer.

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choodudetoo t1_j28pelw wrote

There's a fair amount of testing done on Grade A farm milk for processing. Not as much as a raw milk permit, but enough to catch most "sick cow" milk.

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