In Germany you have to register all livestock to the national Livestock Insurance Fund and do a proper vaccination. With my menbership in our club all expences are paid for vaccination and registration. Every 3 month we do our vaccination against NC and Brochitis and most breeders vaccinate against salmonella,too.
Oh, and we don't wash and cool eggs, nobody does not even the big poultry farms and we air cool the meat birds after slaughtering and we have al lower rat of salmonella infection per capita then the US... as far as I know.... and this rate didn't raise for years, now.
Many small dairy farmers now have small free ranging chicken flocks b/c for two years or so the don't make any money with milk and so you can see mobile hen-homes popping up all over the country. The farmers sell milk and eggs, sometimes chees.. in little huts... and yes, it is raw unskimed milk and I never heard that someone catched an illniss from those huts.
This here is a quite typical set up
http://www.milch-automat.de/41333.html
Very interesting! I would love to be able to drink raw milk, but our government has proclaimed it toxic to human health. Unless we own our own cow or goat, or know someone else who does and is willing to quietly provide us with some for a "financial donation", we just can't get it.
I'm afraid that here in the U.S., our food system is run not only by massive agricultural conglomerates, but also by chemical companies and now, pharmaceutical companies. Here, they can cause the disease via improper animal management and pollution of the land with chemicals, and then sell us the pharmaceutical treatment for the symptoms for each disease (but never the cure). It's quite a scam, and all sanctioned by our government.