- Source type
- Government
- Access type
- Official
- Publisher
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Added
- 2026-07-01
Trust profile
VV Source Trust Matrix v1.0
VV Source Trust Matrix v1.0 asks whether this source is trustworthy for the claim lane being used, not whether every possible claim from it is equally strong.
91
Government health research
- Publisher type
- Government research
- Bias profile
- Low
This source is strongest for safety and clinical outcomes and weaker for consumer context and regulatory status.
VV Source Fit Score 1.0
Fit by use case
Fit scores are role-specific. A source can be excellent for one claim lane and weak for another.
- Regulatory status
- 66/100
- Context Source
- Clinical outcomes
- 90/100
- Primary Anchor
- Mechanism
- 90/100
- Primary Anchor
- Safety
- 92/100
- Primary Anchor
- Consumer context
- 88/100
- Strong Support
- Trial discovery
- 89/100
- Strong Support
Best used for
- Research synthesis
- Public-health context
- Safety resources
Weak for
- Primary endpoint extraction when a study is available
Used in Viral Vitalism
Raw Milk Is the Food-Freedom Fight With Pathogens in the Room
Roles: Regulatory status
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- Article source list
- Why raw milk became a culture war
- What raw milk actually means
- Pasteurization is the safety boundary
- The pathogens are not theoretical
- The nutrition claim
- The clean farm argument
- The H5N1 layer
- Why vulnerable groups change the math
- What to do with this
- Is raw milk more natural than pasteurized milk?
- Can clean farms make raw milk safe?
- Is raw milk a good idea for children or pregnancy?
- Is raw milk more nutritious than pasteurized milk?
- Can a clean farm make raw milk safe?
- Who should be most careful with raw milk?
- Should anyone drink raw milk for H5N1 immunity?
CDC: Raw Milk
Roles: Regulatory status
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Claim ledger
Claims supported
Reviewed claim cards that cite this source in the evidence graph.
raw milk: Raw milk is not safer than pasteurized milk because
Raw milk is not safer than pasteurized milk because pasteurization is designed to reduce disease-causing germs while preserving milk’s nutritional role.
raw milk: Children are a higher-risk group for serious illness from
Children are a higher-risk group for serious illness from raw milk pathogens, making child-focused raw-milk recommendations materially different from adult food-choice arguments.
raw milk: Raw milk outbreak risk is not theoretical because unpasteurized
Raw milk outbreak risk is not theoretical because unpasteurized milk and raw-milk products have repeatedly been linked to foodborne illness outbreaks.
raw milk: Clean farm practices can reduce raw-milk contamination risk but
Clean farm practices can reduce raw-milk contamination risk but cannot guarantee raw milk is free of pathogens because contamination can occur despite good practices.
raw milk: Pasteurization does not meaningfully destroy the major nutritional value
Pasteurization does not meaningfully destroy the major nutritional value of milk, so nutrition-loss claims do not outweigh the safety function of pathogen reduction.
raw milk: Drinking raw milk as an H5N1 immunity strategy is
Drinking raw milk as an H5N1 immunity strategy is not supported and can create infection risk rather than a reliable protective immune response.
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FDA: HPAI in Dairy Cows and Milk Safety Updates
Regulatory update source for HPAI in dairy cattle and milk-safety monitoring, used to keep raw milk claims current around emerging pathogen risk and pasteurization context.
- Trust score
- 94
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Access
- Official
- Usage
- 5 connections
FDA: Raw Milk Misconceptions and Danger
Regulatory consumer-safety source for specific raw milk misconceptions, including nutrition, lactose intolerance, allergy/asthma extrapolation, and the distinction between farm exposure observations and retail raw milk recommendations.
- Trust score
- 94
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Access
- Official
- Usage
- 12 connections
FDA: The Dangers of Raw Milk
Regulatory safety source used for pathogen, hospitalization, and serious-illness framing; supports the claim that natural or local milk does not remove the need for pasteurization as a safety control.
- Trust score
- 94
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Access
- Official
- Usage
- 7 connections
E. coli O157:H7 infections in children associated with raw milk
Government outbreak report used as a child-risk example for E. coli O157:H7 associated with raw milk, supporting the high-caution framing for children and other vulnerable groups.
- Trust score
- 91
- Publisher
- MMWR
- Access
- Official
- Usage
- 4 connections
Increased Outbreaks Associated with Nonpasteurized Milk, 2007-2012
Peer-reviewed outbreak surveillance source used for raw milk outbreak burden, pathogen context, and the relationship between access/legalization and reported illness events.
- Trust score
- 91
- Publisher
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Access
- Official
- Usage
- 3 connections
Quantitative risk assessment for raw milk consumption
Peer-reviewed quantitative risk-assessment source for raw milk consumption, used to ground consumer-risk framing beyond anecdotes and to distinguish individual risk tolerance from population safety.
- Trust score
- 91
- Publisher
- Journal of Food Protection
- Indexed by
- PubMed
- Access
- Abstract/index
- Usage
- 5 connections