Conradine Sanborn of St. Paul refers to supermarket milk as "dead milk."
She avoids it, preferring raw milk from a farm in Gibbon, Minn. She also regularly buys ice cream, meat and eggs from the Gibbon farmer, Michael Hartmann.
Hartmann's farm has become the center of a controversy over raw milk — that is, milk that hasn't undergone the usual pasteurization treatment to kill illness-causing bacteria.
Last week, regulators said they believed four cases of E. coli O157:H7 were linked to raw milk from the farm. One outbreak victim, a toddler, is hospitalized with a life-threatening condition. Agriculture regulators are also investigating whether Hartmann violated state restrictions on selling raw milk — something they found him culpable of in 2004.
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