Thanks for following up on this, and posting those documents. It’s such a shame to not have access to the actual study, though. I’m a raw milk supporter, and generally support food freedom and farmers like Mark who are willing to stand up to these government bullies, so I trust him — but he’s obviously not an impartial third party in this situation. In trying to convince others of the safety and benefits of raw milk, this study would be such a great asset, if it could actually be produced, and on the website of a major university no less…

Hello, I emailed Mark McAfee to ask for this citation. He replied:

Unfortunately, Cornell took down this page years ago. I took a screen shot of it and saved it for my use. I also summarized the data from all sources because the CDC refuses to reach back to include the CA 1985 Jalisco Cheese (pasteurized cheese) incident that killed 49 people. I also included 8 deaths listed on a pediatrics website that were attributed to severe and fatal allergic reactions to properly pasteurized milk. This is the best estimate that I have been able to come up with.

I will upload the docs he sent and place links to them at the end of this article.

“According to the Cornell study performed on CDC data, there were 1100 illnesses caused by raw milk between 1973 and 2009. There were 422,000 illnesses caused by pasteurized milk. No deaths from raw milk and at least fifty deaths from pasteurized milk or pasteurized cheese”