Milk News Bird Flu. Federal officials say the risk to the public remains low after the food and drug administration announced wednesday that tests of commercially available milk. An avian flu outbreak in dairy herds has stoked tensions between the federal government and raw milk advocates.
Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the food and. Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products โ and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows.