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@mushroom_soup @Marakus Pasteurisation was maybe appropriate during the early industrial era, as a broad response to an enormous amount of abuse and misuse, terrible hygiene, and H&S standards.

Industrial and agricultural standards are such that these abuses are illegal and punished much more often today. It's not really a big deal now, nor was it prior to the industrial era. I don't think pasteurisation is necessary or desirable, as long as those standards are maintained, and it certainly shouldn't be illegal to sell normal milk (as it is in my country for example).

@mushroom_soup @Marakus My point in the previous post, was that it was scandals like this (industrial abuse), that brought about pasteurisation in the first place, even though it doesn't do anything for non-bacterial contamination.

The infant formula one you linked is one that will be familiar to any Australian, because Chinese diaspora in Australia started mass buying formula and shipping it to their relatives and other buyers in China.

Returning to my main argument, any time anyone buys a product from the store, they're relying on health and safety standards. It applies to cookies and weird processed foods as much as meat or milk. Pasteurisation only eliminates the one vector of contamination. People still suffer bacterial food poisoning and there are food recalls from processed and non-processed goods in the store.