Shelf-Life of Milk Unpasteurized Traditional Pasteurization New Process Pasteurization Ultra-Pasteurized
10 days 21 days 63 days 71 days

According to CDC, between 1998 and 2011, about 79% of the dairy-related illness outbreaks were caused by cheese or raw milk (unpasteurized) products. 148 outbreaks and 2,384 illnesses were reported during that time. 284 required hospitalizations and 2 deaths were caused by cheese or raw milk products. Although these numbers seem small, there are risks. At a federal level, although the FDA forbids the sale or distribution of raw (unpasteurized) milk, 13 states allow the sale of raw milk in their retail stores. and another 17 states allow the sale of raw milk on the actual farm that the milk was produced.

Explain the thinking that caused the FDA to forbid the sale and distribution of raw milk.
Question 25 options:

Unpasteurized milk has the shortest shelf-life.

Parasitic organisms that live in cows can be passed on to humans.

Unpasteurized milk has a short shelf-life and costs more money to produce.

Microorganisms found in unpasteurized milk can cause illness and even death.

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.