No, here’s the data, per capita, or per consumer of the food product, of a few commonly eaten foods.
Raw milk compared to other foods
Raw milk comes with more risk than pasteurized milk, while maintaining a much lower risk than other commonly eaten foods.
Comparing raw milk foodborne illness data with other foods
Individual cases of illness, zoomed into dramatic detail, are not trends. There is no raw milk pandemic.
How farmers keep their milk safe
Milk testing and on-farm biosecurity surveillance. Animals and the milk they produce can be routinely tested on the farm. Places where microbes might entrench themselves can be documented, inspected, and routinely sanitized.
We no longer live in the world of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Running a clean operation is within reach, and that’s why the risk of foodborne illness from raw milk is low compared to other commonly eaten foods.
View farms that adhere to RAWMI standards, the leading raw milk safety framework.
Raw milk testing continues as the FDA shrinks
Watch a raw milk farmer test their goat milk
Raw milk bacterial testing before it leaves the farm
