Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by Organic Pastures Dairy of Fresno County is the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Whiteford. The quarantine order came following the confirmed detection of campylobacter bacteria in raw cream.

Even as outbreaks involving raw milk continue to mount, the movement is attracting followers of faith-based food safety into the fold.

A mother, whose two-year-old has been hospitalized for 28 days after drinking raw milk, recommends not giving children milk that hasn't been pasteurized. In the last few weeks as many as 21 cases of food-borne illnesses have been traced to raw milk from a farm outside of Willsonville. Health officials are repeating advice that raw milk is dangerous.

Although nominally about epidemiological basics and evaluative techniques during an outbreak of foodborne illness, a new paper also provides some details – and investigative uncertainty -- during a 2008 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 linked to raw milk cheese in Quebec (that’s in Canada).