CANADA: Put out to pasteurize - (The Gazette)
March 30, 2008 – 8:29 pmhttp://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=8cc598a9-22f1-42af-a4c0-40627d9de57b
Carol Vachon, described as Quebec’s best-known crusader against the Canada-wide ban on raw milk consumptio, was quoted as telling about 40 students in the food sciences building at Université Laval last week that, “For the past 100 years, the scientific world has been completely closed to raw milk, making research with humans impossible (or) even to compare it with milk sold in stores.”
While the manufacture of cheese made from raw milk has been legal in Quebec since 1991 - albeit under such rigid conditions that it remains a niche market - the sale and consumption of unpasteurized or “raw” milk has been banned here since the 1960s.
The story says that 40 years later, there is widespread support among scientists, bureaucrats, the dairy industry and consumer groups in the province for the maintenance of the ban and the rules that control the manufacture and sale of cheese made from raw milk.
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