Raw milk in Switzerland

[Aargauer]

@Tom1234

Probably not- it was one of those dodgy places serving food to backpackers. That was a big flag but I didn’t trust my instinct.

uff I am sorry, this doesn’t sound fun at all

@Tom1234

There’s no monitoring service here so amount of illness from raw milk is unknown.

It would be interesting to know this!

@KiwiSteve

Fortunately the raw milk producers take the issue seriously; On-Farm Lab Testing for Raw Milk Farmers — Raw Milk Institute

)'m glad they do… never thought otherwise.

@marton

caused 96% of illnesses caused by contaminated dairy products.

Yeah, one could also say that virtually all hospitalizations regarding milk are from unpasturized diary products. That still doesn’t mean that it’s that bad.

1.5% of the US population are 5M people.
3.2% is 11M people.

Personally, not a huge risk in my opinion

[Flakk]

@marton

According to this study, unpasteurized milk, consumed by only 3.2% of the population, and cheese, consumed by only 1.6% of the population, caused 96% of illnesses caused by contaminated dairy products

US figures. Given the state of their agriculture I would not expect the numbers to be relevant here.

Particularly cheese. Many Swiss hard cheeses are made from unpasteurised milk including (as far as I can tell) all Gruyere, Emmentaler and Appenzeller (which covers the 3 biggest sellers). That US 1.6% is probably north of 75% here.