WASHINGTON — Enhancing its procedures to keep highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 out of the nation’s dairy cattle herds, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services announces the beginning of its new National Milk Testing Strategy.
The department says that this new testing strategy builds on steps taken from the USDA, as well as federal and state partners, which began when the virus was first detected in dairy herds back in March.
USDA says that it is issuing this as a new Federal Order along with accompanying guidance which will require raw, unpasteurized milk samples be collected across. . .