Revealing Raw Truths about Milk: Scientific Advances in Understanding the Health Impacts of the Milk Microbiota

Thank you to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) for the opportunity to present a body of scientific evidence available in peer-reviewed studies that Dr. Billauer appeared unaware of in her post about raw (unpasteurized) milk. Our concern is that the November post is at odds with the growing corpus of scientific evidence from the peer-reviewed literature. Here are six claims unsupported by the current body of evidence, each with a brief bulleted description of the evidence and a hyperlinked citation. A more comprehensive documentation can be found here.

1. Dr. Billauer claimed that percentages of raw milk outbreaks compared to all outbreaks associated with food and water had decreased from ~25% in 1938 to ~1% in 2005, but that ‘of late’, ‘the figure has blossomed’.