Overview
- Reports obtained from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food documented two serious violations in late May and early June 2025, including elevated coliform bacteria in bottled raw milk.
- Utah’s dairy program manager said Ballerina Farm made the decision to discontinue raw-milk sales and offer only pasteurized products.
- In a Jan. 29 statement, Daniel Neeleman said the raw milk met Utah’s testing requirements, acknowledged facility constraints, and said the farm plans a separate dairy designed for raw products.
- Utah’s Raw Milk for Retail guidelines require milk that fails safety tests to be recalled or withheld from sale and disposed of, with permits subject to suspension after repeated failures.
- Public-health warnings about raw milk persist, and New Mexico officials recently linked a newborn’s fatal listeria infection to the mother’s consumption of raw milk during pregnancy.