Finnally got to a terminal where I'm not whitlisted...yes am at my job on the high seas, its a federal job with defense dept, anyway , read the article about the listeria at that esterella farm, sad, no one elaborated where it came from & my limited understanding listeria on the farm can come from almost anywhere, from bad silages, dirty cow stables, damp feeds, etc, etc, nothing to take lightly from what i was shown in aprentiship at MacDonald College in late70's. the dairy farms i worked back then milked as few as 25 and as many as 60, mostly Jerseys, some Holstein-Fresian cattle & aryshires as well.
Many a farmer pointed out to me many things about raw milk and how it could make you very ill, i experienced it working at a freestall barn prior, and got deathy ill, opened sluces at both ends , put me in hospital witha medicated drip, it was bad, so much the milk board insp went & looked and pushed the issue on that farm, never went bak, can you figure!
Yes the Food inspectors are there to help, but you have to wonder sometimes, they feed the anti govt retoric which is nothing but baseless fear of the govt in all aspects. But a big question is how are artisnal cheese & butter producers treated in europe! Are they held to same standards as the large scale processing plants. This is what I see in USA & Canada since the Listeria debacle at maple leaf foods a few years back.
Another question Why are they not treating the small Artisnal cheese & butter producers whith some degree of latitude as their product is different.