Families in central New York who bought unpasteurized milk from Big Brook Farm in Lee Center are being told to throw it out after state testing confirmed Listeria monocytogenes in a sample. The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets issued the consumer alert on Wednesday, September 30, and the farm is now barred from selling raw milk until follow-up testing shows the product is clean.
No illnesses linked to the milk had been reported to the department as of the September 30 alert. The warning is a precaution based on a lab result, not a response to known infections.
