WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday it will expand bird-flu testing of beef entering the food supply as part of its response to the ongoing outbreak among ...

The expanded testing builds on previous ... no recorded cases of people catching bird flu after eating dairy products from grocery stores or ground beef. But in April, a former FDA official ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is commonly called “bird flu.” This disease began in the mid-1990s in Asia and has ...

USDA has launched a study testing meat samples from culled dairy cows for the bird flu virus. It follows earlier studies that determined beef in the nation's food supply was safe for consumption.

Emilio Esteban, the undersecretary for food safety at the USDA, told reporters on a call Tuesday the new testing program follows ... The virus, also referred to as bird flu or H5N1, has been ...

Three of America’s top milk-producing states aren’t a part of federal surveillance testing for bird flu even as a new variant is turning up in dairy cattle, in what some public health experts ...

Government officials and experts agree that the nation’s milk supply remains safe because pasteurization kills the bird flu virus. They add that the nation’s beef supply is also safe because ...

"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 ...

August 29The July bird flu outbreaks in two Colorado poultry ... April 29The Department of Agriculture told Forbes it will begin testing ground beef samples from grocery stores in states with ...

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Her husband immediately said, yes, she was splattered by bird poop. The physician made a preliminary clinical diagnosis of presumptive avian flu (H5N1) infection. We don't know what testing was ...

Called highly pathogenic avian influenza, the H5N1 bird flu virus making headlines in Michigan ... how widespread the infections actually are. Testing for H5N1 infections is voluntary.