There's healthy support for a plan to legalize individual raw milk sales in New Jersey following an outbreak of illness across the border in Pennsylvania this year.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A federal judge in Iowa has rejected a lawsuit that sought to expand access to raw milk by challenging a Food and Drug Administration rule that bans interstate shipments of unpasteurized milk. U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett in Sioux City dismissed the two-year-old case filed by a nationwide group of raw milk drinkers, producers, and distributors.

A statewide quarantine on raw milk products from a Northern California dairy is over, though state health officials are still investigating. The California Department of Food and Agriculture on Thursday lifted the ban on products from Claravale Farm of San Benito County, one of two raw milk dairies in the state.

Here’s an effective way to get at some of the 1%; bad food safety advice. The Wall Street Journal ran a recipe extolling the virtues of steak tartare – “itsy bitsy pieces of raw red meat cling together and make for bold, blissful eating” – and came in with this nosestrethcher: