These days, there’s a lot of talk about milk pasteurization. As the controversial consumption of raw milk is increasingly garnering attention, I became curious about pasteurization in general. And ...

Why are the expiration dates on cartons of organic milk so much farther in the future than those of conventional milk? The sell-by dates of most conventional milk cartons indicate they must be sold ...

a farmer pouring milk into a metal canister with a cow in the background - Simonskafar/Getty Images There's been a lot of talk in the media about milk. Humans have historically preferred to drink ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Raw milk isn’t currently legal everywhere. Those who don’t live in sanctioned states are securing their ...

When Louis Pasteur developed and patented the process of pasteurization in the 1860s, it had nothing to do with milk. He was more concerned with keeping beer from spoiling. But, by the turn of the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers evaluated the resilience of the highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in milk under pasteurization-like ...

“There’s a clientele in Asheville that’s super-knowledgeable about milk and really wants that purity, the 100 percent grassfed and the cream-line milk, the unhomogenized.” — Jonathon Flaum photos by ...