Raw milk: What are the risks and why are people talking about it?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Pasteurising milk makes it safer, but are there any benefits to drinking it “raw”? James heads to a dairy farm to investigate the evidence and see if anything is lost in pasteurising milk.
Guests: Professor Marion Nestle, food policy expert, New York University Dr Ellen Evans, food safety expert at Cardiff Metropolitan University Jonny Crickmore, Fen Farm Dairy and chairman of the Raw Milk Producers Association Professor Markus Ege, researcher, University of Munich
Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Tom Bonnett
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| 0:53.1 | Today I'm on a dairy farm in the Suffolk countryside and we're getting ready for milking |
| 0:58.5 | time. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm drawing milk from the teats and looking at quality of the milk and making sure it's consistent, |
| 1:05.3 | no lumps. |
| 1:07.1 | So therefore I'm happy with that milk. |
| 1:10.0 | So therefore now I'll be disinfecting the teats |
| 1:13.1 | I'm standing in the milking parlour with Rob Warman |
| 1:16.7 | So Rob all these cows are on a raised platform |
| 1:19.0 | Do you ever feel perilously close to their bum? |
| 1:22.7 | Yes |
| 1:23.1 | Sometimes it pays to look upwards |
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