Utah Confirms Raw Milk Salmonella Link
Salmonella in raw milk from Redmond Heritage Farms in Sevier County, Utah, is a genetic match to the strain of Salmonella Newport that infected at least six people from three different Utah counties.
That's the result of tests conducted by the Utah Public Health Lab and announced today by Utah County. The samples were tested in conjunction with a state and local investigation of a Salmonella Newport outbreak that was believed to stem from contaminated raw milk sold at Real Foods stores in Orem and Heber, Utah.
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News reports have said that Real Foods owns Redmond Heritage Farms. Because of the Salmonella probe, sales were suspended. But the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food recently cleared Redmond to resume sales.The first illness was reported April 15 in Utah County. Since then, three more cases were confirmed in Utah County and two more were found in Salt Lake and Wasatch counties.
Officials have said the youngest victim was a toddler and the oldest was 56 years old. Officials have said no one appears to have been hospitalized in the outbreak, but Salmonella is a pathogen that is capable of causing serious injury or death.
Raw or unpasteurized milk is prohibited from public sale in some states because of the inherent risks of infection from Salmonella, Campylobacter and E. coli O157:H7. Without pasteurization to kill the organisms, they can contaminate fresh milk without degrading the taste or smell of the product.
For answers to legal questions about the Real Foods raw milk Salmonella outbreak, call food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen at 1-888-377-8900 (Toll Free) or by completing the contact form on the side of this Web page. A Salmonella lawyer at our firm can provide you a free case consultation.
Actually, raw milk is prohibited in some states because of the huge pasteurized dairy lobby. Money talks.
How about all the people who drink raw milk who don't get sick from it--even the same batches that supposedly sickened others. Why didn't they get sick? Thousands of people drink raw milk, but they're not dropping dead like flies. They're flourishing.