Another "raw milk" incident...

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6. Oh my, that foreign country France considers pasteurized cheeses almost a sacrilege.

Funny, how recent studies have tried to find out why the French are healthy

Africa - Although milk consumption in Africa is fairly low compared to the rest of the world, in tribes where milk consumption is popular, such as the Maasai tribe, milk is typically consumed unpasteurized.

Europe - French Roquefort, a famous blue cheese, which is required by European law to be made from raw sheep's milk. According to the regulations in the European Union all raw milk products are "legal" and considered "safe for human consumption", and can be sold without any price, variety or quantity restrictions. However, the European countries are free to add certain requirements, usually special sanitary regulations and frequent quality tests (at least once per month) are mandatory.

France - Raw milk and especially raw milk cheeses are considered the standard for high quality dairy products. Many French cuisine traditionalists consider pasteurized cheeses almost a sacrilege. Many traditional French cheeses have solely been made from raw milk for hundreds of years.

Germany - In Germany, raw milk is commonly called Vorzugsmilch.[11] It is sold widely in all health food stores, large supermarkets, gourmet delis and delicatessen sections of department stores, and in most of the German predecessors of health food stores called Reformhaus. Raw milk is legally sold in the entire country, and the same goes for raw milk cheeses, which are especially sought out and promoted by the health food and slow food movements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_milk

I eat raw-milk cheese. The local health food store sells raw milk - have not heard of any consequences in this town.

There is raw milk and there is raw milk, just as there is clean food and contaminated food.

But then those Europeans, what do they know, after hundreds of years.