PITTSBURGH - To the list of simple childhood pleasures whose safety has been questioned, add this: eating snow. A recent study found that snow — even in relatively pristine spots like Montana and the Yukon — contains large amounts of bacteria.
Parents who warn their kids not to eat dirty snow (especially the yellow variety) are left wondering whether to stop them from tasting the new-fallen stuff, too, because of Pseudomonas syringae, bacteria that can cause diseases in bean and tomato plants.

But experts say there's no need to banish snow-eating along with dodgeball, unchaperoned trick-or-treating and riding a bike without a helmet.

"It's a very ubiquitous bacteria that's everywhere," says Dr. Penelope Dennehy, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on infectious diseases. "Basically, none of the food we eat is sterile. We eat bacteria all the time."

Snow eating now endangered kid pleasure - Yahoo! News

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Before long, they will tell us it is not safe to breath and to stop doing that too...

The human stomach has a rough Ph of 2.0 specifically to KILL bacteria (among other functions). Our bodies are designed to handle the intake of germs. I have never heard of a situation when someone got sick from snowcream.

Common sense dictates that certain precautions should be taken (dirty snow and such) but people are overworried in this case.