Cheese, Milk and Dairy: Raw Drinking Milk

Raw milk advocates stress the importance of raw or unpasteurised milk of its qualities as a complete food. Raw milk has not undergone any treatment such as skimming, homogenization, pasteurisation or ultrafiltration.

This document concentrates on the specific legal provisions which apply to raw drinking milk. It should be read in conjunction with the document on Milk, Milk Products and Drinking Milk: Introduction which sets out the general regulations concerning milk production.