Science blog posts
Research, data, and analysis on raw milk safety, nutrition, allergy outcomes, pathogen risk, foodborne illness rates, and more.
11/22/2024 - 8/29/2025
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Ancient aurochs size comparison
Aurochs, predecessor of the cow, were significantly larger than modern bulls.
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Should media reporting sway our opinion on raw milk
Find out how the safety performance of raw milk farmers compares to farmers who produce other foods (free graph)
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Pasteurized milk plant kills six with toxic gas
Six workers succumb to asphyxiation on a big dairy which produces raw milk for pasteurization.
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Will you eat the carbon butter?
New lab food that seeks to replace butter and palm oil, without GMOs.
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Pasteurization plant dumps so much raw milk it clogs up wastewater processing facilities
Local milk pasteurizer sells out to big milk processor, raw milk intended for pasteurization gets dumped and interrupts wastewater processing.
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Raw Farm Salmonella Outbreak Shows Raw Milk Regulation Works
CDC’s report on the 2023 Raw Farm Salmonella outbreak: 171 cases, 22 hospitalized, no deaths, and a recall within a week. How California’s system caught it.
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FDA approves UV treatment as pasteurization
UV treatment might be the next milk pasteurization.
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How dairies can prevent the spread of bird flu in wastewater
Milk produced for pasteurization might be the biggest man-made threat vector for circulating bird flu in the environment.
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Raw Milk Testing Continues as the FDA Shrinks
The FDA has never tested raw milk sold for drinking. State permits, state inspectors and state labs do, and federal workforce cuts do not change that.
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Timeline of cow breed development
Overview of cow breeds on a timeline of when they were first introduced.
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USDA orders mandatory bird flu testing
Federal tracking of HPAI/ Bird Flu has expanded from animal samples to milk samples in the USA.
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She simply tolerated the lactose
Woman tragically develops lactose intolerance, then regains her ability to consume dairy by slamming skim milk.
11/22/2024 - 8/29/2025
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