DURAND, WI (WTAQ) – Two western Wisconsin dairy farmers still deny allegations that their milk made over three dozen students and others sick at a potluck dinner for the Durand High School football team.
It was reported a few days ago that Roland and Diana Reed of Pepin County agreed to have their state milk sales license suspended for 30 days. That was after they pleaded no contest to a state allegation of distributing unpasteurized milk.
However, their attorney David Sienko tells the Wisconsin State Journal they did not admit that their raw milk caused the bacterial infections from last fall’s dinner. He said the state’s investigative report was “incomplete at best” — and it did not test the chicken that was served at the potluck.
Jennifer Miller of the state’s health agency said tests of cow manure from the Reeds’ animals uncovered the same strain of bacteria that caused the illnesses. And milk consumption was the only exposure statistically associated with the bacteria strains, based on what those at the dinner said.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
