The Pennsylvania State Agriculture and Health Department urged raw milk consumers to discard raw milk produced by The Family Cow because of potential Campylobacter bacterial contamination.
The Department of Agriculture received a consumer complaint, it collected samples of raw milk during an investigation of The Family Cow on July 29, 2013. Positive test results for Campylobacter were confirmed today. The Department of Health confirmed two cases of Campylobacter infection in people who consumed raw milk from the farm.
The packaged raw milk is sold under The Family Cow label in plastic gallon, half gallon, quart and pint containers. It is labeled as “raw milk.” Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized.
The Family Cow sells directly to consumers in an on-farm retail store and at drop off locations and retail stores around Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley, as well as south-central Pennsylvania.
Agriculture officials have ordered the owners of the farm to stop the sale of all raw milk until further notice.
This is their third recall, one that sickened 80 in 2012, one that sickened five people in May 2023 and this one which sickened two so far. It may be time to find another dairy or go to pasteurized milk.
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