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FDA pauses milk quality testing amid Health and Human Services cuts; lab transfer planned
The FDA has halted its quality control program that tests milk but promised to protect the safety of the pasteurized milk ...
The FDA Is Pausing Bird Flu Milk Testing After More Than 20,000 HHS Job Cuts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pausing its milk testing program, which was originally created to monitor avian flu risks. The move follows the elimination of 20,000 HHS positions and the ...
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FDA Stops Testing Milk Due to “Budget Cuts”
To be entirely up front as a journalist, I grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm known as InVu Hill, where we raised Holstein ...
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FDA Suspends Dairy Testing Program Following Mass Federal Layoffs
A key element of the United States’ food safety infrastructure has been placed on hold following internal changes at the Food ...
West Nile bird testing suspended in Illinois to prevent bird flu spread
With bird flu cases rising in the United States, the Illinois Department of Public Health is taking steps that will impact ...
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Experimental bird flu vaccine excels in animal models
A vaccine under development has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. The work focuses on the H5N1 variant known as 2.3.4.4b, which has ...