Parents do not need to be alarmed; the FDA is still making sure the milk you drink is safe By now, you have likely heard that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended its testing ...

You might've heard some alarming things about the Food and Drug Administration. According to news articles and social media posts, the FDA put milk safety testing on pause in April 2025. Experts say ...

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 ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. The FDA has suspended a quality control program for ...

It's Texas. It's always going to be hot and sticky. But there's one thing we don't have to sweat in the Lone Star State: the safety of our milk. Concerns over milk safety have heightened following the ...

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.

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Six states have joined the nation’s milk testing program to track the spread of bird flu as another spillover of the virus was reported in dairy cows. The addition of Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, ...

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 ...

Milk produced in Vermont will soon be tested for bird flu as part of a new nationwide monitoring program. The testing protocol will likely begin sometime this month and comes in response to a recent ...