US FDA/CFSAN - On The Safety of Raw Milk
(with a word about pasteurization)
May 12, 2005
- With regard to the constipation claim, it appears that statement may be based on research which appeared in the NEJM between 1998 and 1999.
- That research dealt with cow's milk and chronic constipation in children.
- The claimant simply extrapolated that research to the population at large, which is, of course, inappropriate.
- The literature that we have seen does not indicate a belief that pasteurization of milk is considered to be causative of constipation, rather a sensitivity to cow's milk protein is believed to be the problem