Farmers say they can barely keep raw milk in stock, even at $10 or $20 a gallon, as it gains popularity, to the alarm of health officials.

In today’s Health Alert, a growing push to expand access to raw milk is gaining momentum, with more than three dozen bills introduced in statehouses nationwide.

A growing number of states are making it legal to sell raw milk, and dairy farmers say they can barely keep it in stock.

Sugars contained exclusively in breast milk are helping to feed an important balance of bacteria in babies' developing gut microbiomes, a new study has found. In a paper published in Nature Communications,

Federal health officials are investigating a multistate outbreak of an especially dangerous type of E. coli infection linked to raw cheddar cheese, according to an alert from the US Food and Drug Administration. Nine people have become ill and three have ...

Bacteria are often cast as the microbial villains of our food system, blamed for spoilage and sickness. But behind the scenes — or rather, inside the scenes of yogurts, sourdoughs, and cheeses — they are also master chemists. Bacteria create many of ...

Human breast milk is sold for babies on several online sites for a few dollars an ounce, but a new study says buyer beware: Testing showed it can contain potentially dangerous bacteria including salmonella. The warning comes from researchers who bought and ...

Plant-based milks don’t always stack up nutritionally, especially when it comes to vitamin B2. So researchers in Denmark went looking for a better way — and ended up turning to bumblebees. Their findings show certain bee-derived bacteria can increase riboflavin levels in soy milk during fermentation — no fortification required.

Maternal genetic control of HMO composition substantially shaped infant microbial diversity at 3 months, while host–environmental factors increasingly dominated by 13 months. Cesarean delivery-associated microbiota deviations were not fully normalized by any single HMO,