A federal judge ordered the Department of...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to act within 60 days on a consumer group’s request to ban all domestic sales of raw or unpasteurized milk and its products. U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell said the department’s justification for continued delay “is lame at best and irresponsible at worst.” Gesell said the agency’s own top health officials admit that “the consumption of ‘certified’ raw milk . . . has been linked to the outbreak of serious disease.”