What the Times did not report is so very serious that it foreshadows a widespread epidemic, the likes of which has never before been experienced in America. The most common pathogenic organism found in raw milk is Staphyloccus aureus. Cows often get ulcers or sores on their udders. THE GOOD NEWS Staphyloccus aureus is destroyed by pasteurization. While the organism is easily destroyed by heat, the toxin it produces is not.
Bacteria eat and bacteria digest foods.
The byproducts of their digestion are toxic to humans. Traditional pasteurization methods will not destroy existing toxins from Staphyloccus aureus. FDA arbitrarily increased the allowable level of antibiotics in milk by 100 times. The old protocol called for no more than one part per hundred million of antibiotic residues in milk. The change permitted antibiotic levels to be as high as one part per million.