Raw milk is known to be 700X more likely to cause a foodborne illness. Since evangelists for bacteria in food often hide illnesses to protect their beliefs it may be even higher.

Cheese will be safer, if it is aged long enough. Which means you are not dealing with a company that is in a financial panic. Like RAW FARM-brand raw dairy products.

When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a lawyer for Natural Resources Defense Council and investor in solar gimmicks, he was adored by Democrats who shared his beliefs that science was a vast right-wing conspiracy. When he joined the Trump administration, some followed him and embraced his MAGA agenda(1), but many turned on him because he joined a Republican.



His favorite raw dairy farm being ordered to close because of how well they assisted the H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in chickens that caused normal eggs to be as expensive as Organic™ ones certainly did not help the industry.

To date, nine customers of RAW FARM dairy cheese have been infected with E. coli in three states. Three have been hospitalized and one developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can cause kidney failure.  but fortunately no deaths have resulted.

Cheese, even made using raw milk, should be safe after 60 days of aging but the best way to mitigate risk is to buy from companies that accept science understood ever since 1860.

NOTE:

(1) It has been fun watching cranks like Vani Hari, who endorsed Obama and said I was a right-wing shill for Big Corporations because I debunked her claims that microwave ovens caused cancer while the organic wine she sells in her supplement store was still a class 1 carcinogen, now claim I am a shill for left-wing corporations despite me saying the same things about food coloring and processed food as I have always said.