FDA Says No Infectious Bird Flu Virus Found In Powdered Infant Formula, Cottage Cheese, Sour Cream

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that hundreds of retail dairy samples checked for the presence of a highly pathogenic avian flu strain have all come back negative, reaffirming the agency’s assessment that America’s pasteurized milk supply is safe. The FDA said on May 1 that it had carried out tests on 297 retail dairy samples, including fluid milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, and powdered infant formula, in an effort to check for the presence of live, infectious bird flu virus. The agency found that none of the samples had any active fragments of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, commonly known as the bird flu....