While the Australian state of Victoria has taking steps to limit the sale of bath milk, linked to a child’s death and three other cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome, the stuff was found on sale yesterday alongside regular milk in a Sydney supermarket (that’s in the state of New South Wales).
Banana Joe’s supermarket in Marrickville was yesterday selling raw milk alongside pasteurized products.
The milk, Cleopatra’s Bath Milk, retails for $8.73 for a two liter bottle and is labeled “cosmetic skin treatment only”.
Despite displaying this legally required warning, the raw milk is packaged almost identically to regular milk and was displayed in the same fridge as other milk products.
The store manager, who gave his name as AJ, had “no concerns at this time” selling the products in the same fridge as regular milk as they were not on the same shelf.
He said he had ordered the milk in at the request of a customer but added that he had only sold “one or two bottles.”
A Coles supermarket in Western Australia was found to be selling unpasteurized goat’s milk, according to an intrepid reader, which has, I’ve been told, since been removed.