Raw milk: regulatory loophole gives Swiss the freedom to skip pasteurisation 

Once considered dangerous, raw milk is now back in people’s fridges. Legislation worldwide is adapting. Switzerland relies on labelling and personal responsibility. It took 16 years for Jason Schultz, a Republican politician, to pass a bill he introduced to allow the American state of Iowa to legalise the sale of raw or unpasteurised milk. When he won his seat in the Iowa House of Representatives in 2008, Schultz didn’t expect much resistance considering that Iowa is an agrarian Midwestern state known for corn and pigs; the Iowa State Fair even features a 600-pound cow made entirely out of butter. “I thought this would be easy,” Shultz, now an Iowa state senator, told SWI swissinfo.ch by email. However, he was unable to get his bill passed until last May when the Republicans controlled the legislature and Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed the raw milk bill into law. As of July 1, 2023, Iowan farmers are allowed to sell raw milk directly to consumers. Resistance came from ...