According to a press release obtained by Food Poisoning Bulletin, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issued an advisory about ice cream sold at Dutch Valley Bakery & BBQ in Spring Mills, Centre County.
The ice cream was produced by Spring Bank Acres of Rebersburg in Centre County. The advisory states, “Spring Bank Acres produced an ice cream mix to which raw milk was added after pasteurization, potentiallly presenting a food safety risk. The product was representated as pasteurized ice cream and sold as ‘homemade’ by Dutch Valley Bakery & BBQ.”
Samantha Krepps of the Ag Department told us that “no illnesses were reported” linked to this product. Dutch Valley Bakery & BBQ sold the ice cream as-in and made it into milkshakes. While it’s legal to sell raw milk with a permit in Pennsylvania, the sale of raw milk ice cream is illegal.
Raw milk can contain pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacter, that can sicken even healthy people. Those in high risk groups, such as the very young, the elderly, pregnant women, anyone with a compromised immune system, and anyone with a chronic disease, can become seriously ill from these bacteria.
If anyone has consumed this product and experienced the symptoms of food poisoning, which can include vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache, body aches, and stomach cramps, please call the Pennsylvania Department of Health at 1-877-724-3258.
sounds extremely serious! = “potentially presenting a food safety risk” what’s called-for are, armed men going house-to-house confiscating the stuff, as is happening in California, with Organic Pastures’ milk there.
Then the outer limit of illogic will have been reached .so the real motive of the tyrant is exposed. The communists have over-stepped themselves …. not too much longer and the people will laugh the tyrant off the stage.
the furore about raw milk, is not about “health”
Not true. Real people are being hurt by raw milk. Organic Pastures milk was contaminated with Campylobacter. That is a biological fact. Foundation Farm in Oregon is the source of the E. coli outbreak that has given four children hemolytic uremic syndrome, which causes kidney failure. For the mother in Oregon, watching her two-year-old suffer strokes and kidney failure, this IS extremely serious.
Science is very logical. If someone doesn’t accept science, there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about that. The “furor” over raw milk is EXACTLY about health.
And consuming a product that is inherently unsafe is a real risk. Public health demands that we do everything we can to minimize exposure to foods contaminated with dangerous bacteria. To ignore that risk is extremely foolish. In South Carolina right now, there’s a Salmonella outbreak that was caused by unpasteurized tempeh. After the initial outbreak, people kept getting sick. From person to person contact. That is why the government steps in when there’s an outbreak. Because tax dollars are spent on investigations, and health care dollars are spent on helping people get better. Millions of dollars.
And no one is “going house to house confiscating the stuff”. The sale of raw milk is legal in 28 states. What government authorities are doing is making sure producers are abiding by the law, that is enacted in accordance with the Constitution of the United States. All they, or anyone else, really, have to do is obey the law. It’s really quite simple.