US FDA/CFSAN - On The Safety of Raw Milk
(with a word about pasteurization)
May 12, 2005
- Almost half of the patients had serious underlying non-infectious diseases, such as leukemias and lymphomas.
- With such patients, the immune system is often compromised as a result of the treatments which they are receiving.
- The combination of a deadly pathogen and an immunocompromised patient is obviously not a good one.
- Unfortunately, raw milk is oftentimes marketed as being a "health food" and some raw milk vendors, when comparing their product to a pasteurized milk, ascribe to it all sorts of curative properties, which are as yet largely unsubstantiated in the scientific literature.