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• Nation’s Largest Raw Milk Dairy Sues FDA Over Interstate Ban

  Food Safety News By Cookson Beecher | December 17, 2012 Organic Pastures, the nation’s largest raw milk dairy, has launched a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for allegedly turning its back on the dairy’s request for the agency to change its current law banning sales of raw milk across state lines. Raw milk is milk that hasn’t been pasteurized to kill potentially harmful, and at times deadly, pathogens such as E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella andRead more

• Peer-reviewed Publication: Multistate Outbreak Of E. coli O157:H7 From Aged Raw Milk Cheese, 2010

  Authors from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta report findings from an epidemiologic and laboratory investigation of a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with in-store sampling of aged raw milk gouda cheese at southwestern Costco stores sourced from Bravo Farm in central California. Investigators found deficiencies in sanitation at several points along the food supplyRead more

• Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Imported Marte Brand Frescolina Ricotta Salata Cheese

  CDC is collaborating with public health and regulatory officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis). Joint investigation efforts indicate that ricotta salata cheese is the likely source.  Public health investigators are using DNA “fingerprints” of Listeria obtained through diagnostic testing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, or PFGE, to identify cases ofRead more