Twenty-Five Years of Raw Milk Cheese Outbreaks in the United States, in CDC’s and FDA’s Own Records: E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella and Campylobacter, 2000 to 2026

Twenty-Five Years of Raw Milk Cheese Outbreaks in the United States, in CDC’s and FDA’s Own Records: E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella and Campylobacter, 2000 to 2026

Four raw milk cheese outbreaks in thirty-one months — Raw Farm in February 2024, Twin Sisters Creamery in October 2025, Raw Farm again in March 2026 and now Sierra Nevada Cheese Company’s Graziers — have sickened 43 people, hospitalized 17 and put six children into kidney failure, and every one of those cheeses was aged the sixty days federal law requires. That run sent me back through twenty-five years of CDC and FDA records to lay the whole hi…