When can you give toddlers/children unpasteurised milk/cheese?

[TheGrandOldDuke]

does anyone know if there's any guidance? Can't find any apart from Us on Google. Thanks

Hi, my kids (5 and 2) have had it since they were 6 months +. From when i stopped breastfeeding. They have raw milk and unpasteurized cheese all the time..as does everyone else.

well cared for children will be eating mud, poo, worms and all sorts of rubbish by walking age so i wouldn't really worry about silly government guidelines.

Cheese made from raw milk is different to raw milk itself in terms of safety.

The Food Standards Agency recommends avoiding raw milk if you're in a 'vulnerable' group, defined as the sick, infants and the elderly.

I'd avoid raw milk for a toddler but would have no probs with cheese made from unpasteurised milk.

More info at www.food.gov.uk

I personally wouldn't listen to any advice from the FSA. they're a bunch of industry funded, misinformed cunts. Fucking muggles.

Six m

Children can have anything apart from honey at 6m and then from 1 year all food is ok.

I worried there, but FSA deffo not industry funded, it is a Govt funded.

I find their advice useful and more straightforward than Department of Health, that said, it's horses for courses and I am a bit of a science and evidence geek - not the case for everyone.

Thanks everyone

Please all those giving their babies/children raw milk - read this lady's experience. x

www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/10/draft-amy-nordykes-story/