Brunton Dairy to Start Selling Milk Again Saturday

After months of voluntarily suspending milk production, Brunton Dairy gets back to business Saturday.

"We’re back!" the farm's website proclaims. "Brunton Dairy has returned to doing what they do best… producing delicious, nutritious milk for your family!"

The dairy's website said milk will be available Saturday and home deliveries resume on customers' next regular delivery day. 

Milk production was following reports that more than a dozen people in Allegheny and Beaver counties were after drinking tainted milk from the Independence Township farm.

A Pennsylvania Agriculture Department spokesperson said the department’s milk sanitarian and milk program specialist will return to Brunton Dairy on Friday to complete a final inspection.

Press Secretary Samantha Elliott Krepps said milk samples will be pulled weekly for additional oversight for two weeks.

“The Department of Agriculture has inspected the facility five times and has made many recommendations to Brunton Dairy, which they have completed,” said Krepps.

“Brunton Dairy has been very cooperative with the department during our inspections,” she said.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Allegheny County Health Department issued a joint health advisory in August, adding ice cream to the list of tainted products that Brunton Dairy sold.

A positive culture for Yersinia enterocolitica was uncovered in an unopened container of Brunton Dairy ice cream that a consumer provided to the health department.

The health departments advised consumers and retailers to discard all ice cream purchased from the dairy as a precautionary measure. Ice cream and bottled milk production was suspended at the facility in July.  

Sixteen cases of Yersinia enterocolitica were reported as a result of the outbreak − nine from Beaver County and seven from Allegheny County. 

The 200-acre farm dates back to 1832, according to its website. For a list of stores that carry its products, click here.