Washington Post The nation’s health agencies have warned against this claim by Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services. “Unpasteurized milk can pose a serious health risk,” the FDA has said, and “raw milk can be a source of foodborne illness,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said.
We asked food scientists questions about raw milk and the pasteurization process. What’s the difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk?
Raw milk is milk that hasn’t gone through pasteurization, the federally regulated process of heating milk to a specific temperature for a certain amount of time to eliminate human pathogens.