Q-fever meningitis is just one illness that consuming raw milk can cause. Colorado allows it kind of sort of. To be legal the farm owner has to set up a cow or goat share program and sell interest in the animals. After someone owns interest in an animal they are allowed to what it produces. The money paid is to be for care and feed of the animal not the sale of raw milk. The milk is then a byproduct that the part owner is entitled to. It's a way around the health department laws. I had a share program a few years back. People loved it, but as the farm owner there is allot of work involved other than milking, bottling, and cooling. you still have to test animals for TB and Berculosis each year and have milk tested on a regular basis by a lab to prove that you don't have high bacteria counts or antibiotic residues. You have to pass the same inspections as a Grade A dairy. Milk must be cooled to below 45f within 30 minutes (demonstration required) a customer list with their contact info on hand and available to the Colorado Department of Health at all times. Udders and teats must be washed before and after each milking (goes without saying). Animals must be machine milked. No hand milking allowed. Equipment must be washed before and after each milking. If it was washed and sanitized more then four hours before use it had to be washed again before use. My milker got washed four times a day. Commercial quality chemicals must be used. And the list goes on and on and the inspectors are extra picky when they know you are selling raw milk. It is very high risk for both the producer and the consumer. You are not allowed to deliver or process in any way. If the owner took their sweet time going home and let it warm up and they get sick it's on you as the producer as you will not be able to prove it was not bad to start with. Customers are really bad about washing out glass containers well enough to be refilled too. I generally washed all return containers again before filling. Even though I required return containers to be ready to be filled it would be my backside in trouble if they were filled dirty and someone got sick. I finally stopped doing it. Way too much work for a little pay. I still milk my goats and consume the milk raw, but I know how it's all being done. If I did not and was buying it from somebody I would never do it and would pasteurize it first. The only milk I sell now is dyed green and labeled for animal use only for people bottle feeding goat kids, a calf, or pigs and so on. A guy locally got in a huge mess selling raw milk years back. His equipment cleaning was not up to par and he had bacteria growing in his equipment. He also had a few doe's with mastitis that he was milking. He had six people in the hospital along with an infant that almost died. I have no idea how that all worked out for him, but it did shut his business down overnight. He was milking something like 100 goats and selling all the milk. He was licensed, but that does not cut the mustard if someone gets sick. He was on the hook.
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