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  • OREGON: Weighing the raw risk: Drinking unpasteurized milk simply isn't safe

    Posted: April 22nd, 2012 - 3:53pm

    Mel Kohn, director of the Oregon Public Health Division of the Oregon Health Authority, writes that s erious illness or the death of a child is a tragedy that touches all of our hearts. Over this past week four seriously ill children have been hospitalized in Oregon after drinking unpasteurized milk contaminated with E.

    Date Published: 
    20.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Oregon Live
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  • MISSOURI: Ozarks experts debate raw milk safety

    Posted: April 20th, 2012 - 5:41pm

    GALENA, Mo. -- Fourteen people in central Missouri are now sick with E. Coli and health officials linked at least half the cases to raw milk. There's been a long, nationwide debate over the safety of raw milk; in fact, it's illegal to sell in some states.

    Date Published: 
    19.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    KSPR
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  • 17 sick, 4 kids hospitalized from raw milk at 4-cow Oregon operation

    Posted: April 20th, 2012 - 2:02pm

    Lab tests confirmed Tuesday what Oregon health officials suspected: Raw milk from Foundation Farm near Wilsonville was contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli. The tests found E. coli O157:H7 in the milk, manure and the cows themselves, said Christine Stone, spokeswoman for Oregon Public Health.

    Date Published: 
    18.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • JAPAN: Raw beef liver ban upsets many; proposed health ruling draws criticism from food industry, experts

    Posted: April 18th, 2012 - 1:48pm

    The health ministry's planned policy of prohibiting restaurants from serving raw beef liver to prevent food poisoning has been criticized by people in the restaurant industry. Some argue the ban is extreme and have suggested people in the industry will demand compensation for damage caused by the ban from the government.

    Date Published: 
    17.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Daily Yomiuri Online
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  • MISSOURI: Farmers say raw milk bias is misguided

    Posted: April 18th, 2012 - 1:46pm

    Eric and Joanna Reuter believe a state and local health department bias against raw dairy products is partly to blame for those agencies initially linking raw dairy to an E. coli outbreak.

    Date Published: 
    16.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Columbia Daily Tribune
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  • OREGON: Another E.coli infection traced to raw milk from Wilsonville-area farm

    Posted: April 18th, 2012 - 1:45pm

    Oregon health authorities have confirmed a fifth case of E. coli infection in an outbreak traced to raw milk. All five patients are younger than 15 and three, including a toddler, are hospitalized with acute kidney failure, a complication associated with E. coli O157:H7.

    Date Published: 
    16.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    The Oregonian
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  • 9 sick in Missouri, 2 kids in hospital, but raw milk faithful rally to the cause

    Posted: April 15th, 2012 - 6:42pm

    Food to many is an evangelical calling. Some find faith in monotheism, some in nature, some in the sports shrine (I prefer ice hockey, especially now that the playoffs have started and the cathedral once known as Maple-Leaf-Gardens-whatever-the-corporate-home-of-Toronto’s-disgrace-is-now is out of the theological debate), and some in the kitchen.

    Date Published: 
    13.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • State confirms 12 E. coli cases in mid-Missouri outbreak linked to raw milk

    Posted: April 15th, 2012 - 6:41pm

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed several new cases of E. coli infections in humans on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in mid-Missouri up to 12. The outbreak first appeared in Boone County earlier this week but has since been found in Jackson, Clark, Camden, Miller and Cooper counties.

    Date Published: 
    13.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    Missouri News Horizon
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  • More raw milk, more kids sick; 3 hospitalized in Oregon

    Posted: April 15th, 2012 - 6:41pm

    Oregon health officials say three children under the age of 15 have been hospitalized with E. coli linked to raw milk from a small farm in Clackamas County. The state Public Health Division said Friday that Foundation Farm has voluntarily stopped distributing milk.

    Date Published: 
    13.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • 2 kids with kidney failure in Oregon; raw milk off the rails

    Posted: April 15th, 2012 - 6:40pm

    More details from the Oregon E. coli O157:H7 raw milk outbreak. Lynne Terry of The Oregonian writes the latest outbreak associated with raw milk has put a toddler and two young teens from the Portland metro area in the hospital with E. coli poisoning, two with kidney failure. A fourth child -- also under 15 -- fell ill but was not hospitalized.

    Date Published: 
    14.apr.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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