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Decline of Infectious Disease Not Related to Mandatory Pasteurization

Decline of Infectious Disease Not Related to Mandatory Pasteurization. 1948: First State Mandatory Pasteurization Laws. Comparative Safety of Raw Milk I Based on statistics compiled by Dr. Ted Beals.

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Decline of Infectious Disease Not Related to Mandatory Pasteurization

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  1. Decline of Infectious Disease Not Related to Mandatory Pasteurization 1948: First State Mandatory Pasteurization Laws

  2. Comparative Safety of Raw Milk IBased on statistics compiled by Dr. Ted Beals • 42 government-reported illnesses from raw milk per year for the period 1999-2010. This number includes unconfirmed cases. There have been NO deaths. • According to a 2007 CDC survey, there are about 9 million raw milk drinkers in the US (3.04% of population). (This number is probably higher today.) • Rate of illness from raw milk can be calculated at .00046%. The actual percentage is probably much lower. • There are an estimated 48,000,000 cases of foodborne infections per year in the US. • Population about 300,000,000 • Rate of illness from all foods can be calculated at 16% • Thus, you are at least 35,000 times more likely to contract illness from other foods than from raw milk. PLUS, drinking raw milk protects you against illness from other foods! Source: http://www.realmilk.com/real-milk-pathogens.html

  3. Comparative Safety of Raw Milk II Based on statistics compiled by Dr. Ted Beals • Comparing Raw Milk to Other Foods: Between 1998 and 2005, there were over 10,000 documented outbreaks that contributed to 199,263 documented cases of foodborne illness. • Raw milk was associated with 0.4 % of these cases, a number that is probably exaggerated. • There is no way to quantify whether any one of these foods is safer than another from this data, but it is clear from the data that there is no basis for singling out raw milk as “inherently dangerous.” realmilk.com/documents/SheehanPowerPointResponse.pdf.

  4. FOODBORNE ILLNESS DEATHS, since 1999 • Cantaloupe: 29 (2011) • Spinach: 5 (2007) • Luncheon Meat: 12 (Canada, 2008); 2 (2011) • Peanuts: 9 (2009) • Eggs: 30 PER YEAR • Oysters: 15 PER YEAR • Pasteurized Cheese: 7 (Europe, 2009) • Pasteurized Milk: 3 (2007) • Pasteurized Mother’s Milk: 4 (2003) • Raw Milk: NONE

  5. LISTERIA • Around 300 deaths per year from listeria; thousands of illnesses. • Most prevalent sources • Luncheon Meats • Soft un-aged cheeses • NO cases of listeria from raw milk

  6. Raw Milk Challenge Tests I • Large amounts of Campylobacter (an amount found in 20,000 grams manure) added to chilled raw milk (4o C): • Most strains showed a dramatic decline Day 0 = 13,000,000/ml Day 9 = less than 10/ml • The only stain that did not decline was a non-human strain. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1982;44(5):1154-58

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