The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections potentially linked to Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese.
Thirteen people in nine states have been sickened in the E. coli outbreak, including eight who were hospitalized and three who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a potentially serious complication of E. coli infection that presents with bloody diarrhea and fever, according to the CDC. No deaths have been reported, the FDA said.
States with E. coli cases linked to raw milk cheese include California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.
How do American get this wrong? Half the cheese in Europe is from unpasteurised milk.
We let the states come up with the rules. Instead of the fed mandating best practices, they just recommend pasteurization. Europe has stricter testing and hygiene rules. IIRC, there’s not a significant difference in people getting sick in between the two.
That said, The current administration gutted the hell out of the food safety departments and started getting some real hell over it, so they’re now they’re ‘finding’ a new thing to recall every week. It’s WAY too frequent for it to be real every time. edit: that said this one is very likely real
I worry about the health and safety of you guys across the pond. Not only is your government rolling back mandatory vaccinces , they are also turning food into a russian roulette.
Most of our damage is self-inflicted. The vast majority avoid raw milk products and still get the vaccines anyway. The crew that doesn’t are mostly made up of the science deniers who won’t believe anything is real until it’s happening to them. So it’s truth by Darwin with truly unfortunate collateral damage of people who can’t medically get the vaccines.
The food roulette has taken some lives. Perhaps the best outlook we can have on that is those who were ok with food safety being dismantled now might consider it was there for a good purpose and was not doge worthy.
The pursuit of profits above all else, presumably. Or perhaps just plain old human error.
Well let’s hope they can fix it.
The EU has like 3x as many Listeria cases per capita compared to the US because like half the cheese is unpasteurized. The US does have a lot more E. coli across many vectors so there’s a few factors but gutting regulatory bodies has obviously been making things worse.
Not just cheese we have yoghurt that are unpasteurised too.
Regulations exist because there was a problem being ignored. Companies still love ignoring problems so this shit keeps happening.