Look at This Bad Raw Milk Test—Would You Know Without Testing?
What Does Raw Milk Quality Look Like Without Testing? The test plates pictured above were shared by another raw dairy that was asking for help troubleshooting unusually high coliform and aerobic plate counts. We are sharing this image for education—not to identify or criticize the farm. By all appearances, this was an extremely clean dairy. The facility looked clean, the equipment looked clean, and the milk may have smelled and tasted completely normal. But the test results revealed a serious problem that could not be seen. Without testing, they would not have known.