A Legal History of Raw Milk in the United States

Marler Clark partner Andy Weisbecker began his article for the Journal of Environmental Health with a quote from Winston Churchill: “There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.” He then continued with an account of milk safety and the laws and regulations that have evolved to protect consumers from becoming ill from drinking milk produced in unsanitary conditions. He finished by saying that although laws and regulations are in place, "The sale of raw milk continues to be legal, in some form or another, in almost half the country’s states, and the attendant risk of raw milk–related outbreaks therefore also continues to be present."

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