Provincial health officials say that a second batch of tests have confirmed that raw milk from cow-sharing co-op has dangerously high levels of bacteria. This is a Chilliwack-based Home On The Range cow-sharing co-op.

As per the US guidelines, un-pasteurized milk sales require the bacterial count to not exceed 10 coliform units per unit.

Raw milk can be contaminated by many ways including fecal matter. Provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall said, "We were getting numbers ranging from 570 in one sample of raw milk to
950,000 in another sample."

He said that one sample of cream tested positive with a coliform count of six million per milliliter. Pasteurized milk which contains coliform count of over one unit per milliliter is not permitted to be sold in B. C.

15 samples collected from stores were tested by both B. C. Centre for disease Control along with an independent lab in Burnaby.

The test results confirmed 30 percent evidence of contamination which included high coliform counts and high E. coli counts.

Kendall has suggested to get rid of any Home On The Range products still kept in people’s fridges.