A dairy cow pokes its head up in the herd. (AP Photo). USDA released its plan Friday to test the nation’s milk supply for avian flu, which has swept through a large portion of the nation’s dairy herd ...

A recent move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could impact the safety of milk products in North Carolina. The FDA suspended its proficiency testing program for Grade “A” raw milk and finished ...

The U.S Department of Agriculture is set to require bulk milk tank testing to address bird flu outbreaks in dairy herds, impacting Michigan and an additional five other states throughout the country.

The FDA reinstated the employees who run the proficiency testing program. After this story was published, Vianca N. Rodriguez Feliciano, Press Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health & Human ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Agriculture, with significant input from Oregon’s dairy industry and processors, said Wednesday it is launching its milk testing and monitoring program ...

Infectious disease experts have called for expanded testing since the beginning of the outbreak, arguing that the virus can’t be contained until farms, veterinarians and federal regulators know where ...

Jugs of raw milk fill a refrigerator at Raw Farm dairy in Fresno in June. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times) Less than a week after California health officers confirmed a finding of bird flu virus in ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Detections of avian influenza in poultry and H5N1 in dairy continue to keep livestock producers, health professionals and leaders like Minnesota Department of Ag commissioner Thom ...