Posted: July 9th, 2010 - 11:18am by Doug Powell

Lab tests performed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment have confirmed that raw milk from Longmont's Billy Goat Dairy is responsible for an outbreak of bacterial illnesses in Boulder County.

Samples of the dairy's unpasteurized milk tested positive for the strains of Campylobacter and E. coli that have now sickened 30 people, including two children who are hospitalized.

Chana Goussetis, spokeswoman for Boulder County Public Health, said

“Our main message, over and over, is that no matter what, there's no way to ensure that unpasteurized milk is safe.”

A table of raw-milk related outbreaks is available at 
http://bites.ksu.edu/rawmilk