As federal agencies along with state partners continue to investigate an outbreak of H5N1 infection reported in U.S. dairy cows, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has discovered fragments of the bird flu virus in samples of pasteurized milk.
However, the FDA assured that the commercial supply of milk is still safe to drink as it follows two steps: the pasteurization process and the diversion or destruction of milk from sick cows. The remnants of the bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk are not the same as the infectious virus and currently do not pose any elevated risk, the FDA said in an update.
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