An article in Consumer Affairs http://consumeraffairs.nic.in/consumer/writereaddata/CT_Paneer-13.pdf
describes how most brands of paneer show microbial contamination. Obviously, there is no requirement in India that paneer should be pasteurized. This raises a major question – does eating paneer pose the risk of getting tuberculosis? Well cooked paneer may not pose this risk but raw paneer and not-so-well-cooked paneer could. The following article http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/23/health/tuberculosis-from-animals/index.html mentions that in some countries 40% to 60% of cattle have bovine tuberculosis, which is known to spread to humans who are exposed to it. The article talks about the connection between consumption of “queso fresco”, a form of raw cheese, and the spread of bovine TB among humans.
Readers may also like to read a couple of relevant papers:
Vaishnavi C, Singh S, Grover R, Singh K. Bacteriological study of Indian cheese (paneer) sold in Chandigarh. Indian J Med Microbiol [serial online] 2001 [cited 2017 Dec 5];19:224-6. Available from: http://www.ijmm.org/text.asp?2001/19/4/224/8198
Germs. 2012 Sep; 2(3): 101–109.Published online 2012 Sep 1. doi: 10.11599/germs.2012.1020PMCID: PMC3882853
Milk-borne infections. An analysis of their potential effect on the milk industry,
Revathi Dhanashekar,1,* Sindhura Akkinepalli,2 and Arvind Nellutla3
Bovine tuberculosis is not the only disease one can get from milk products.
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