The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent recall affecting select lots of raw dog food after testing revealed possible contamination with Salmonella. The recall, announced in ...

The article promoting the consumption of raw milk largely ignored the risks of raw milk consumption, especially for children (“Raw milk back on the table,” by Suzanne Nelson, May 21). The article made ...

Raw milk refers to the milk of an animal—typically a cow but also a goat or sheep—that has not been pasteurized. Pasteurization is the heat-treatment process, named for inventor Louis Pasteur, that ...

Raw milk describes milk that has not undergone the pasteurization process. As pasteurization removes disease-causing germs from milk, it is not advisable for people to drink raw milk. Raw milk, also ...