More than 165 people, mostly children, have been sickened so far by raw milk products from Raw Farm LLC. In reports obtained by Food Safety News from the California Division of Communicable Disease Control and the California Department of Health, the Salmonella outbreak has sickened 165 people across four states. Previously the department of health was reporting a dozen sick.
The most recent of the reports is from February this year. The most recent illness was recorded this past month. “Over the last 30 plus years of practice I have been a vocal advocate for robust public health involvement in disease – especially foodborne illness prevention.
It is beyond me to comprehend why public health would remain mute in the face of at least 165 sick, 20 hospitalized and 40 percent of the ill five years or younger – especially raw milk – a risky elixir, The more I think about this the harder it is to figure out why public health would sit on the scientific fact that a food producer of a known high-risk food is sickening hundreds. This includes overwhelming epidemiological evidence of the same WGS pattern in both humans and in milk. Setting aside the “food freedom” argument for a moment that people should be able to eat or drink what they want and feed their kids the same; what about simply informing the public of the facts and letting the public decide for themselves?” said Bill Marler, a Seattle food safety attorney and publisher of Food Safety News.
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