CALIFORNIA: Task force targets ‘fiestas’ selling illegal raw dairy, other illicit goods - (Press-Enterprise)
July 6, 2008 – 8:41 pmFor sellers, these open-air markets are a quick way to rake in $1,500 to $2,000, tax-free.
For buyers, these gatherings satisfy cravings for cultural traditions — cheap, homemade cheese and an alcoholic beverage made with fresh raw milk.
But for health and law enforcement officials, these so-called Sunday “fiestas” are illegal public nuisances that can make people sick from consuming unpasteurized dairy products produced under unsanitary conditions.
In poorer areas of cities and in rural, unincorporated parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, a team of authorities confiscates queso fresco, fresh cheese made in bathtubs, baskets, wooden molds, pipe sections, even coffins, said Kenneth P. Chandler, with Riverside County’s Department of Environmental Health, where he created and heads the Illegal Food Program.
Recently, 155 pounds of homemade cheese tested positive for the bacteria staphylococcus, he said. The contaminated queso fresco was sold from the trunk of a car and seized in a June 22 […]
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