UK: FSA highlights raw milk rules Posted: March 31st, 2011 -
7:10pm Source: Food Standards Agency The Food Standards Agency
is reminding local authorities and dairy businesses about the
rules on the sale of raw drinking milk and unpasteurised dairy
products. This follows the announcement by Defra that cattle
testing positive for bovine tuberculosis, known as TB reactors,
are to be tracked using their DNA to further strengthen controls
to prevent the spread of TB. This action is being taken as
emerging evidence suggests that some farmers in the South West
of England and the Midlands have been illegally swapping ear
tags of TB reactors. The process of pasteurisation destroys the
bacteria that cause TB and other pathogens that may be harmful
to human health. The risk from consuming pasteurised milk or
dairy products that may contain milk from TB reactor cattle is
therefore very low. There is no evidence that milk from TB
reactor cattle is being used to produce unpasteurised milk for
drinking, or unpasteurised da