Farming leaders said the risk of bird flu makes this the time to close that loophole. Farmers in North Carolina can legally sell raw milk as so-called pet milk - as long as it’s labeled not ...

A raw milk cheese sampling program, with 100% voluntary participation, also showed no bird flu. This winter, the Agency of Agriculture began a new milk sampling program mandated by the USDA to ...

The study shows cats contract bird flu directly by eating infected birds or contaminated raw chicken feed, and indirectly through other mammals—for example, farm cats fed raw milk from infected ...

Under the USDA’s National Milk Testing Strategy to test raw milk samples for bird flu, the agency has identified at least seven affected states. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration ...

That's an advocacy group that touts raw milk as "an alternative to industrial milk." Last April, state agriculture officials found bird flu in a North Carolina dairy herd after four cows that had ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads across ... To avoid the risk of H5N1 in milk, raw milk and unpasteurized cheese should be avoided ...

emphasized the public safety risks of allowing widespread raw milk sales, citing the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza — bird flu — in dairy cattle. “A basic function of ...

The program, which was initially created in response to the spread of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle ... for collecting and sharing raw (unpasteurized) milk samples with the USDA for testing ...

May emphasized the public safety risks of allowing widespread raw milk sales, citing the presence of bird flu in dairy cattle. (Tom Barton/The Gazette) He said that pasteurization is essential to ...