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YORK, S.C. — A federal agency is warning people not to drink raw milk from a South Carolina dairy because of a bacterial illness but the owner of the dairy says her products are germ-free.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a Saturday news release that it has confirmed three North Carolina cases of campylobacteriosis associated with raw milk from the Tucker Adkins Dairy in York, S.C.
The people who became ill reported drinking milk from the dairy on June 14 and becoming sick in the middle of June. One person was hospitalized, the agency said.
Dairy owner Carolyn Adkins said that South Carolina health officials have told her that samples of her dairy's milk are free of the bacterial illness that can infect the gastrointestinal system. The infection can cause symptoms that include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and nausea.
"I hate that anybody has gotten sick," she said. "It just does not seem that it was related to our milk."
She said she plans to continue selling raw milk from her 27-cow farm because she has abided by the state's strict regulations regarding the product.
"They'll shut me down if I've violated anything," she said.
Spokesman Adam Myrick of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said on Saturday evening they're still waiting for lab results to come back and there have been no South Carolina cases of the infection related to the dairy.
He said although the agency believes people should drink pasteurized milk, it's legal to sell raw milk in South Carolina.
Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2011/07/16/1900886/fda-issues-raw-milk-warning-for.html#ixzz1SNXkETAr
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