Date:   11/20/2006 11:50:03 AM ( 19 y ago)
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Here's a little added fuel to the raw milk fire-an article posted on mercola.com last year. Very interesting!

- A Letter to the Colorado Department of Public Health

The Safety of Raw Milk - A Letter to the Colorado Department of Public Health
by Mark McAfee

Dear Sirs,

I have been requested to share with you our commercial organic raw milk production and sales experience. For the last four years Organic Pastures Dairy http://www.organicpastures.com has produced a full line of raw organic dairy products for retail sale (300 stores including Wholefoods) and consumption here in California. The state of CA (CDFA) monitors and tests all of our
raw dairy products multiple times per month. The state has never found one pathogen (Salmonella, Ecoli 0157 or Listeria) in any of our products. Even more interesting is the fact that not one human pathogen has ever been
found in the hundreds of environmental swabs that have been taken in our plant facility.

Dr. Caterina Berge DVM and PhD candidate at UC Davis tested our milk cows' fresh manure and did not find any human pathogens. That's right. No Salmonella. She was able to show that when Antibiotics are not ever used
on the herd (organic standards) that cows that are not stressed (grass fed and kept healthy) they simply do not slough pathogens in their manure. The data collected at OPDC was quite different than what was found at other
dairies.
The typical conventional milk tank had either Salmonella or Ecoli 0157 detected about 30% of the time. In comparison, OPDC has never had one pathogen--ever.

To study this issue further, OPDC contracted with BSK labs in Fresno to perform multiple challenge and recovery tests on our raw milk and raw colostrum. When 7 logs (10 million counts) of pathogens were added to a one ml samples of organic raw milk they would not grow. In fact they died off.
The salmonella was so badly out competed that it could not be found in less than 24 hours. The listeria drop was less dramatic and was similar to the ecoli 0157 samples that were studied, but they also did not grow and declined substantially over time.

The lab concluded: ".organic raw milk and colostrum do not appear to support the growth of pathogens..".

During the period 2000 through 2004 there were several listeria related food recalls in California associated with pasteurized milk products and ice cream. During this same period more than 12 million servings of OPDC products were consumed and not one person complained of illness and not
one pathogen was ever found either by the state, FDA or OPDC.
This begs the bigger question. What is it that causes raw milk to kill pathogens? The FDA just in the last 24 months has approved Lactoferrin as an approved method of treatment for pathogen reduction in beef slaughter plants. Raw milk naturally has levels of this enzyme based pathogen
killer. Pasteurization actually inactivates this and other enzymes that kill pathogens. These enzymes include lactoferrin, xanthine oxidase, lactoperoxidase, lysozyme, and nisin. There are other interrelated enzymes and beneficial bacteria that also act on the pathogens to inhibit their growth. All of these systems are destroyed by pasteurization. It is no wonder that dairy plants that pasteurize must be kept absolutely spotless. There are no remaining safety systems in the processed milk.

I will be presenting my experiences and the factual references that I have mentioned here during my verbal address in Colorado on May 19th.

Our company ships product all over the world. We have been inspected by the FDA and the FDA has also never found a pathogen. It may seem strange to say
or claim this, but Mother Nature is right, her blue print is right on point.
It is mankind that has added variables that cause much of the concern for pathogens in our current market systems. Our consumers are made ill by pasteurized milk products and the additives and processing methods. Our consumers share their testimonials with us every day. Asthma, allergies, arthritis, immune related disorders, autism, ADD, Chrohns Disease, rare enzyme deficiencies. The list goes on and on. In each of these cases raw milk or raw dairy products makes a dramatic improvement in health. There have been cases when patients have been written off by modern medicine only to return to perfect health after drinking raw colostrums and raw dairy products. Please see http://www.makersdiet.com for a story of one person’s recovery from near death using raw dairy.

It is imperative that the citizens of our nation, not just California have an informed choice in foods. If raw milk was so horrible then why is it
that raw milk has such an incredibly safe record here in California and in Colorado. I would argue that since we have been in business there have
been many listeria recalls and food outbreaks with pasteurized milk but not organic raw milk. As an American we can buy raw eggs, raw meat, raw fresh juices, why not raw dairy products. Show us one case of disease related to natural raw dairy products in Colorado or California. They are very hard to find. They are nearly all related to pasteurizer failure not raw dairy products intended for consumption.
The dairy industry does not understand what I have explained here in detail.
What the dairy industry believes is that raw milk contaminates pasteurized milk. This is not the case. Pasteurized milk kills the safety systems that control pathogens in raw milk and therefore permit unlimited growth of dangerous bacteria if present.

Our products have what Mother Nature intended. a diversity of good bacteria and a wide range of essential enzymes including lactase for lactose digestion and phosphatase that is essential for the utilization of calcium.

Please call 1-877-Raw Milk and I would be happy to discuss these experiences and the hard data that backs them up. Feel free to call CDFA and ask for
the lab tests results. You will find zero pathogens detected at any time from any test.

I look forward to your questions. I am dedicated to sharing information, education and the building of understanding relationships. In fact we place our most sensitive bacteria data at our website for all the world to see. http://www.organicpastures.com. I have medical background having served as a certified paramedic and medical educator for the Fresno County Health Department for 16 years, and having run more than 14,000 911 calls.

See you on May 19th. I do have a special request, can I please have 10 minutes for presentation of information. I will be traveling especially for this event and would appreciate the exception to the 5 minute rule. I am
the only creamery operator in North America to produce the products at issue and believe my experience and tests are absolutely on point.

Most kind regards,

Mark McAfee
Founder OPDC

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Dr. Mercola's comments:

Mark McAfee is the founder of Organic Pastures Raw Diary Farm. Organic Pastures invented and built the first and only grade A organic mobile dairy barn of its kind in North America. None of their individually named cows
are ever given Antibiotics , hormones or GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). Only pasture, natural grains, and approved organic homeopathic methods are used to feed and care for the cows. The health of each cow is a high priority and preventative healthcare keeps the herd healthy all year.

If it was just a choice between pasteurized milk or none at all (which up to now was the case for many) I would advise none at all. But now, after literarally years of searching, I have found Organic Pastures Dairy
Company -- an exceptionally safe and healthy source of raw pasture-grazed certified organic milk -- and other raw dairy products like butter, cream and colostrum -- that can legally ship their products anywhere in the country!
Order these exceptionally nutritious and delicious raw dairy products today.


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