As South Australia cracks down on raw milk sales, the UK Food Standards Agency had dropped charges against The Moo Man after he agreed to stop selling the milk on non-farm premises.

The Sussex Express explains London store Selfridges along with the star of The Moo Man, dairy farmer Stephen Hook had charges dropped while officials decide whether to change the law and allow raw milk sales in UK vending machines.

Not so in the state of South Australia, where it is illegal to sell raw milk, so consumers have adopted the North American tactic of buying shares in a cow.

David Basham, president of the South Australian Dairyfarmers Association told ABC News that as an industry they don’t want to see raw milk sold as they see the health risks as too great.

Geoff Raven from Biosecurity SA says that they have asked the dairy farmer involved to become an accredited farmer, who would then not be allowed to offer untreated milk to consumers.