date:May 03, 2017
as consumption of unpasteurized diary products increase. If this consumption were to double, the mean number of outbreak-related illnesses that occur every year would increase by 96%.
Most of the unpasteurized dairy-related outbreaks are caused by pathogen contamination at the dairy farm. STEC has been found in 2.5%, Salmonella in 4.6%, and Listeria monocytogenes in 2.5%, and Campylobacter in 4.7% of bulk milk tanks on U.S. raw milk farms. Because these numbers are so low, there are few strate