Robert Klute > wrote in
:

>>You're obviously not adressing this in a critical fashion.
>
> Between 1993 and 2006 60% (73 out of 121) dairy related
> outbreaks were linked to raw milk products. The 73 raw milk
> related outbreaks resulted in 1,571 cases, 202
> hospitalizations, and 2 deaths.
>
> http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/3/pdfs/11-1370.pdf

I'm no closer to knowing what the nature of these outbreaks is, but
I'm guessing e. coli.

And pasteurization will not protect you from everything, Viz the
following article from the Journal of Food Protection, 2012:

Widespread listeriosis outbreak attributable to pasteurized cheese,
which led to extensive cross-contamination affecting cheese
retailers, Quebec, Canada, 2008.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22221357

The problem is that pasteurization kills the good as well as the
bad bacteria, and the good bacteria never come back.

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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected
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