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).

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved a proposal recommending permission be given for the sale in Australia of raw milk hard to very hard cooked curd cheeses.

The American Cheese Society has a, uh, cheese problem. While regulators and retailers reassess the safety of raw milk cheese, ACS declared last week raw milk cheese ”when produced and sold under current FDA guidelines, can be consumed without unnecessary risk.”