Organic Pastures raw
cream ordered recalled
September 11, 2008 2:53pm
Source of Article: http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=9801
• State says consumers should throw it out
• Bacterial contamination is reason
• Updated at 4:12 p.m. with comments from
dairy
Grade A raw cream produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County – a product
with the code date SEP 12 — is the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine
order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Richard Breitmeyer.
The quarantine order came following the detection
of campylobacter bacteria in the cream, CDFA says. The detection was confirmed
Thursday morning, it says.
“It’s way past any time when anyone would have
become sick. There’s been no reported illness,” says Mark McAfee, CEO and
founder of the dairy company.
“What we find very puzzling is that the milk that
the cream came from tested negative for campylobacter,” he says.
The dairy company wants CDFA to review the
sampling and testing.
“We just found out from our creamery staff that
[CDFA] came out on the 28th and said they had ‘mixed up’ where the samples had
been sent. These samples are very sensitive to temperature. We’ve asked the
CDFA for an internal investigation,”
Campylobacter is one of the most common causes of
food-borne illness in the
Under the recall, Organic Pastures Grade A raw cream labeled with a SEP 12 code date is to be pulled
immediately from retail shelves and consumers are strongly urged to dispose of
any product remaining in their refrigerators.
All current OPDC product date codes are free to
be sold and consumed without restriction, the company says.
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