FDA says remnants of bird flu found in 1-in-5 pasteurized milk samples | 26 April 2024 | One-in-five samples of pasteurized milk tested in the U.S. contained remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows, U.S. public health officials said Thursday. However, the Food and Drug Administration is announcing the findings said milk sold at grocery stores in the country is safe and that the remnants were like those killed during the milk's pasteurization process. The FDA also said it tested "nationally representative commercial milk sampling," and a greater proportion of the positive results came from milk in areas with infected herds. The test conducted for the bird flu has so far been detected in 33 dairy herds in at least eight states: Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas, also according to the FDA.