Raw milk recall: More testing underway after bird flu virus detected in another lot
CNN — California health officials are warning not to drink another lot of raw milk from Fresno-based Raw Farm after it tested positive for bird flu virus. “As the state continues to investigate the link between bird flu detections in retail raw milk and the ongoing spread of bird flu in dairy cows, poultry, and sporadic human cases, consumers are strongly urged to not consume any of the affected raw milk,” the California Department of Public Health said in a statement on Wednesday. In a November 24 news release, Raw Farm said its products are “rigorously tested for quality” and all “results performed by RAW FARM and all of the official tests by CDFA have been NEGATIVE.” California’s health agency said in its news release on Wednesday that the California Department of Food and Agriculture, known as CDFA, collected additional samples of store bulk tank milk and bottled products from Raw Farm on Wednesday, after bird flu was detected in two lots. There’s no evidence of person-to-person spread but scientists worry the virus can mutate to sp Dr. David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner and chief of Operation Warp Speed, wrote this week in a New York Times opinion piece that milk should be bulk tested in states with dairy farms “to determine the full extent of the infection on these farms and to allow us to contain the virus.” “Without mandatory testing, bird flu will continue circulating at farms across the country, which substantially increases the risk that the virus mutates and evolves to allow a human-to-human transmission that will be hard to stop,” Kessler wrote.
California suspends distribution of Raw Farm raw milk products after bird flu detection
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