More than half of the patients were younger than 5

After one of the most significant public health events in U.S. history, pasteurized milk became almost universally adopted. But there are hold-outs, and raw milk and raw milk products are responsible for human illnesses and deaths 161 years after pasteurization became available.

The E. coli matches that from patient samples from an outbreak in 2025

The dairy waited 21 days to initiate the recall.

The 1906 parallel: History repeating Iiself

The dairy's raw cheddar cheese is currently linked to an E. coli outbreak, but its owners refuse to initiate a recall.

More than half of the sick people are children younger than 5

The dairy continues to refuse to recall its products

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Dairy has refused to recall products found to be likely source of outbreak

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a new E. coli outbreak and has closed an investigation into another.

The E. coli outbreak is linked to Raw Farm LLC’s raw milk cheddar cheese. So far there are seven confirmed patients from California, Texas and Florida. The FDA has