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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Pasteurization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For example, the pasteurization standards for cream differ from the standards for fluid milk, and the standards for pasteurizing cheese are designed to preserve the phosphatase enzyme, which aids in curing the cheese.
Batch pasteurized milk is often called "raw milk" or, confusingly, "unpasteurized milk".
Milk pasteurization standards have been subject to increasing scrutiny in recent years, due to the discovery of pathogens that are both widespread and heat resistant (able to survive pasteurization in significant numbers).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pasteurization   (1192 words)

  
 Oldways - Initiatives - The Nutritional Benefits of Unpasteurized Milk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Milk before pasteurization is rich in colloidal minerals and enzymes, which are necessary for the absorption and utilization of sugars and fats in the milk.
Unpasteurized milk has a cortisone-like factor in the cream, which is heat sensitive.
Unpasteurized milk has beneficial bacteria and lactic acids, which implant in the intestines and contribute to a balanced immune system.
www.e-guana.net /organizations.php3?orgid=61&typeID=202&action=printContentItem&itemID=1505&User_Session=add3dd6de256603c49572e2694d9afe2   (160 words)

  
 Got Milk? Make Sure It's Pasteurized
Raw milk advocates claim that unprocessed milk is healthier because pasteurization destroys nutrients and the enzymes necessary to absorb calcium.
Fans of raw milk often cite its creamy rich taste, says Szalkucki, who adds that it may be creamier because it is not made according to the standards for processed milk.
Transmission of the rabies virus through unpasteurized milk, although not the common route of infection, is theoretically possible, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.fda.gov /fdac/features/2004/504_milk.html   (1582 words)

  
 Consumer Alert: "Don Chepe" Cheese Made From Unpastuerized Milk
Unpasteurized milk may contain pathogens which can cause severe illness and in certain cases death.
The packaged cheese is being recalled because it has been made from unpasteurized or raw milk and has not been properly aged.
Raw milk may contain pathogens and the consumption of raw milk products increases the risk of gastrointestinal illness due to the likelihood that it may contain infective doses of human pathogens.
www.fda.gov /oc/po/firmrecalls/dominican08_05.html   (303 words)

  
 THE RAW FACTS
When cows are milked, their body fluids are stored in refrigerated bulk tanks while waiting for the trucks to take the milk to the processor.
Milk from hundreds of dairy farms are usually mixed together and added to that carton of milk sold in supermarkets.
Milk from the cow had been pooled with milk collected from other cows, and an unpasteurized portion was distributed for human consumption.
www.notmilk.com /forum/463.html   (1121 words)

  
 Unpasteurized Milk: Aging Begins at 30: Virtual Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The connecting link was that 93% had drunk unpasteurized milk from the same dairy.
Pasteurization, named after the famous wine bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, is a process to prevent spoilage in milk, wine, beer and juices where the liquid is heated to 62 C for half an hour or rapidly to 80 C for 20 seconds and then chilled.
In addition milk samples were donated at community events and given to those that toured the farm.
www.vh.org /adult/patient/internalmedicine/aba30/2001/milkunpasteurized.html   (439 words)

  
 Outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni Infections Associated with Drinking Unpasteurized Milk Procured through a Cow-Leasing ...
Of the 28 patients with positive stool specimens, 23 (33%) were patients who drank the unpasteurized milk, four were mothers of patients, and one patient had an unknown mode of infection.
The facility that supplied milk to patients was a Grade A organic dairy farm with 36 dairy cows.
To ensure that unpasteurized milk will not be distributed to the public in Wisconsin, state officials are enforcing existing regulations and prohibiting cow-leasing programs.
www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5125a2.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Truck and Barter: Sweetcream Economics?
Milk is an even better culture medium for a wide range of human-specific pathogens e-Coli, Salmonella, plus a bunch of minor players.
Someone living close to the animal (milk goes from teat to mouth within the day) in less than sanitary conditions (ie: on a farm where their body's immune systems are frequently challenged and therefor strong as opposed to urban where everything is sanitized as often as possible), the problems with raw milk are minimal.
Growing the cattle in the country and then trucking the unpasteurized milk into a city, holding it and distributing it to people is a health nightmare waiting to happen.
www.truckandbarter.com /mt/archives/000337.html   (1008 words)

  
 [Professional Information] - Advisories: Human Risks of Unpasteurized Milk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Human illnesses that have been caused by consumption of raw milk and cheese made from raw milk include Q fever (1), Salmonella dublin infection (3), staphylococcal food poisoning (2), brucellosis (4), campylobacter infection, salmonellosis, C. ulcerans sore throat, and listeriosis (5).
Sheep and goats' milks and cheeses made from them are becoming popular in the US and have been implicated as the cause of human infections.
The risk for milk-borne infection from unpasteurized goat's or ewe's milk is similar to that from cow's milk (5).
flbdr.hsc.usf.edu /professional/advisories/milkrisk.html   (451 words)

  
 Agri News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Raw milk producers and drinkers make a variety of health claims about unpasteurized milk, among them that it soothes arthritis and fights obesity.
She said pasteurizing, or heating, milk is the only way to kill some microbes and hormones that could pass into milk.
Milk contaminants could be harmful to the elderly, pregnant women and infants, Gibbons-Burgener said.
webstar.postbulletin.com /agrinews/229979987005439.bsp   (812 words)

  
 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infections associated with drinking ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On December 8, investigators obtained a milk sample from the farm's bulk milk tank, and cultures of the milk samples grew C. jejuni with a PFGE pattern that matched the outbreak strain.
To ensure that unpasteurized milk will not be distributed to the public in Wisconsin, state officials are enforcing existing regulations and prohibiting cowleasing programs.
In California, where the sale of unpasteurized milk is legal, 128 (3%) of 3,999 residents reported drinking unpasteurized milk in 1993 (4).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0906/is_25_51/ai_89850426   (992 words)

  
 Why Raw Milk Should Be Avoided
The judge ruled that unpasteurized milk is unsafe and that FDA officials had been arbitrary and capricious in refusing to ban its sale.
About 6% of the calcium in milk is rendered insoluble, about 1% of milk protein is coagulated, and some fat globules are dispersed; but these changes have no effect on the bioavailability of these three nutrients.
Unpasteurized milk produced by one dairy had been drunk by all 122 victims during the three weeks before onset.
www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/rawmilk.html   (3164 words)

  
 E rRAW MILK SURVEY RESULTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Advertisement of raw milk is limited to sign upon farm premises and shall state milk or milk products are raw.
Yes: The direct sale of raw milk or cream from the producer directly from the farm to the consumer or from a milk plant to the final consumer is not prohibited.
Yes-Incidental sales of raw milk directly to consumers at the farm where the milk is produced; advertising of the incidental sale of goat milk allowed; producer not prohibited from making raw milk cheese on the farm where the milk is produced.
www.magma.ca /~ca/rawmilk/survey.htm   (846 words)

  
 SlowFood.it
Unpasteurized milk and cream also has a delicate, subtle flavor and is much favored by cheese makers, top chefs and their discerning customers.
The result is that, in the UK, the sale of unpasteurized milk is now greatly restricted and although it is produced to exacting standards, it can be only bought from retail milk rounds or from the farm shops of producers.
It would be enough to start with a very simple experiment: take a vial of unpasteurized milk and one of pasteurized milk produced to the same microbiological standard, spike each with a small dose of listeriosis and monitor the outcome over a two to three-week period at controlled temperatures.
www.slowfood.com /img_sito/riviste/slow/EN/22/crudo.html   (1068 words)

  
 Dairy Processing in Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As milk is sold and delivered in advance of payment, DFO requires assurances that the company has sufficient equity to cover approximately two month’s worth of milk purchases.
Plants requiring milk for the manufacture of products that fall within milk Classes 1 and 2 are supplied with milk on demand for the majority of their products.
The volume of residual milk available in any one month expressed as a percentage of the total quota issued is referred to as the provincial PSQ entitlement for that month.
services.milk.org /services/processor/dairy_processing.asp   (1412 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Anecdotal observations that linked consumption of milk with the spread of dis- ease spurred various scientists and physicians in the United States and around the world to undertake public health research to investigate the role of milk con- sumption in foodborne disease as early as the turn of the twentieth century.
Current milk processing strategies, which are designed to destroy C. burnetti in raw milk, are the outcome of a collaborative project between PHS and the University of California in the mid-1950s.
Numbers of C. burnetti present in the milk were referred to as "infective guinea pig doses" because they were assessed through a determina- tion of the highest tenfold milk dilution that caused an intraperitoneally inocu- lated guinea pig to have a significant rise (at least fourfold) in antibody titer to C.
www.nap.edu /openbook/030908928X/html/225.html   (7420 words)

  
 Questions and Answers about dairy.
Pasteurized, commercially available milk has numerous other drawbacks, including the fact that it can contain hormones, antibiotics and other drugs, but I still believe it is much safer than the unpasteurized variety.
Organisms harboured by raw milk that are most often cited as causing gastroenteritis (stomach flu or worse) include Helicobacter pylon, salmonella, staphylococci, hemolytic E. coli and even rabies.
Although people who drink unpasteurized milk may have built up a tolerance for potentially lethal bugs, there is no guarantee the same will hold true for you.
www.enzymeuniversity.com /artman/publish/printer_7.shtml   (413 words)

  
 Why you can rely on raw cheeses by Arthur Cunyngham and John Dennis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Nonetheless an important issue for the cheesemaker is whether the milk which he proposes to use is of acceptable bacteriological quality for the type of cheese to be made.
Firstly, their observation that the cheese made from pasteurized milk had a higher water content is in accord with observations made by specialist cheesemakers who find it necessary to alter the cheesemaking process when using pasteurized milk.
Major producers and retailers of pasteurized milk cheese would, no doubt, long to be able to reproduce the flavor of unpasteurized milk cheese in their product.
www.realmilk.com /fall2000.html   (1795 words)

  
 Mass Treatment of Humans Who Drank Unpasteurized Milk from Rabid Cows -- Massachusetts, 1996-1998
Neither milk nor mammary tissue from the rabid cow was available for examination for the presence of rabies virus.
Transmission of rabies virus in unpasteurized milk is theoretically possible.
The risk could be defined better if samples of milk and mammary tissue were collected from rabid livestock and assayed for the presence, viability, and infectivity of rabies virus.
www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056759.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Episode One Winners
Both Isabella and Troy had drunk the milk and the milk came from the same source, leading us to believe it was probably the source of contamination that led to the diseases.
The milk was unpasteurized, which means that it was not boiled to be rid of bacteria, and that could be the cause of the mysterious disease.
Since it was hot and the power had been off, the milk could have warmed up and bacteria in the unpasteurized milk could have incubated a disease-causing bacteria, giving the disease to the two people.
www.accessexcellence.org /tbs/winners/winners1.html   (1897 words)

  
 BEST unpasteurized goat milk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Because unpasteurized goat milk is digested very rapidly, lactose (the main sugar found in milk), does not remain for long...
Brucellosis outbreak due to unpasteurized raw goat cheese in Andalucia...
Unpasteurized cheeses and pregnancy are a dangerous combination 04 Jul 2004 Feta, brie, goat’s milk cheese and Mexican-style cheeses such as...
am3-great-ideas.info /preferred/GOATS-MILK/unpasteurized-goat-milk.php   (539 words)

  
 Relating to sale of unpasteurized milk; amending ORS 621.055 and 621.115; and repealing ORS 621.089.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Relating to sale of unpasteurized milk; amending ORS 621.055 and 621.115; and repealing ORS 621.089.
Prohibits retail sale of unpasteurized milk except at place milk was produced.
As used in ORS 621.055 to 621.124, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) 'Distributor' means a person purchasing, only, unpasteurized fluid milk and causing it to be processed, including pasteurization, and bottled for distribution and sale for human consumption.
www.leg.state.or.us /95reg/measures/sb0400.dir/sb0497.int.html   (427 words)

  
 Relating to milk products; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 621.055, 621.060, 621.100, 621.115, 621.117 and ...
(1) Official state standards of quality shall be established by the State Department of Agriculture for fluid milk, sterilized { -, - } { + or + } pasteurized { +, + } { - and unpasteurized, - } in the manner prescribed by ORS 632.900 to 632.935.
(2) A city having an approved system of fluid milk inspection may inspect, on a permanent basis, the dairy farm of any producer or any fluid milk produced thereon for the purpose of approving fluid milk for use within the corporate limits of the city.
If one or more additional reactors appear in successive tests, no milk may be sold from this herd until the herd regains a brucellosis-free status.
www.leg.state.or.us /99reg/measures/sb1200.dir/sb1212.int.html   (1193 words)

  
 www.MyCattle.com News
The case has pitted fans of unpasteurized milk, who believe it's more natural and healthier than the processed stuff, against health officials, who call it unfit for human consumption.
The investigators noted tha t raw milk can harbor other, ev en more dangerous types of ba cteria that can be especially ha zardous, and in some cases dea dly, to children and the elderly.
He said that raw milk is no t dangerous when handled pro perly and that he speaks fro m experience: He and his famil y have been drinking it for year s without any ill effects.
www.mycattle.com /article_print.cfm?storyid=4365   (1057 words)

  
 JS Online: Raw emotions
Unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk is more healthful and is in demand.The state's actions will cut the farmers' incomes substantially.The state is taking away people's choices.
Though the state views raw milk sales as illegal, a state statute allows cow owners to drink their own unpasteurized milk.
Clearview has continued selling milk because it believes that raw milk sales are legal under a state statute for incidental sales, said Glenn Stoddard, lawyer for Clearview and the Brunners.
www.jsonline.com /lifestyle/people/jul02/59923.asp?format=print   (1800 words)

  
 Re: Re: Differences between homogenized regular milk and organic unhomogenized milk wrt digestion?
Unpateurized milk is routinely used in France to prepare certain types of cheeses.
Herds that will be used to produce unpasteurized milk must be very carefully monitored, but given this, the milk they produce is not dangerous.
Don't forget that women feed their babies unpasteurized milk, and yet lactating women are far more careless about their health than the average dairy farmer is about his herd.
www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.support.diet/messages/462160.html   (1001 words)

  
 State bans unpasteurized milk products - The Washington Times: Business - January 26, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Farmers making fresh cheese must pasteurize the milk or age the cheese for 60 days or longer, she added.
Kathryn Russell, who runs a small farm in North Garden, Va., in Albemarle County, said she is worried the regulations will penalize farmers who make cheese or butter with unpasteurized milk for their families.
While the state is required to inspect farms that sell dairy products to the public, which happens generally every six months, farmers are not required to register their farms with the state.
www.washtimes.com /business/20050125-092924-9352r.htm   (517 words)

  
 FDA/CFSAN Food Safety Initiative Three-Year Research Plan - May 2001 Update
Research is needed to assess whether the 60-day aging process of cheese made from unpasteurized milk is adequate to eliminate foodborne pathogens.
Evaluate adequacy of the minimum aging period of hard cheeses made from unpasteurized milk to eliminate food pathogens.
Freshly made cheeses containing the food pathogen were packaged into plastic bags, sealed with a vacuum-packaging machine, and aged at 7 °C. During aging, cheese samples were sampled for enumeration of coliforms, total bacterial counts, and pathogens on nonselective and selective media.
vm.cfsan.fda.gov /~dms/3fs3re13.html   (692 words)

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