While raw milk consumption is an elusive figure, it’s generally accepted that it is both more popular and more risky today than at any time in the past several decades.
It’s not just the usual threats like E. coli 0157:H7 and campylobacter but the new threat from the H5N1 avian flu virus. About 99 percent of the H5N1 threat can be controlled by pasteurization, but this would mean that raw milk, sometimes referred to as “fresh” milk, would cease to be raw milk.
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