Organic Pastures Implicated in Another Raw Milk E. coli Outbreak California health officials have initiated a recall and quarantine of raw organic milk from a Fresno County company after it was linked to E. coli that sent three California children to the hospital.  The children have been hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening complication [...]

Recall and Quarantine of Organic Pastures Raw Milk Products The California Department of Agriculture today announced that raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County are the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Whiteford. Pursuant to the terms of the recall, all Organic Pastures [...]

Another raw milk outbreak has sickened at least 24 people, including several children, in Colorado.  Since June 10, 24 people who reported drinking raw milk from Billy Goat Dairy in Longmont have become ill with campylobacter and/or E. coli O157:H7.  Two children have been hospitalized, one has been released. Lab tests have confirmed the presence [...]

Three More Children Sickened by Hartmann’s Raw Milk Three more children, one of them an infant, have been sickened by E. coli O157:H7 linked to raw milk from Hartmann Dairy Farms in Gibbon, Minnesota.  The new cases bring the total number of victims to 8, mostly in Hennepin County.  The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) [...]

The Minnesota Star Tribune (David Shaffer, Dan Browning, and Mike Hewlett) just posted this interesting article about he owner of the raw milk farm responsible for an E. coli outbreak in Minnesota: The organic farmer who produced raw milk linked to illness in four Minnesotans, including a toddler who remained hospitalized Thursday, has for years [...]

The superstar investigators at the Minnesota Department of Health have once again cracked the source of another E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Minnesota state health officials have linked three cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness with raw milk from a dairy farm in Gibbon, Minn.  The Minnesota Department of Health urges anyone who may have recently [...]