Jenni Tilton-Flood, manager and owner of Flood Brothers Farm in Clinton, Maine, writes about the importance of energy choice in the state, particularly in relation to the dairy industry. Tilton-Flood highlights the benefits of renewable natural gas (RNG) and the success of the community dairy digester at her farm. She emphasizes the need to look beyond wind and solar to reach climate goals and preserve the state’s gas pipeline system.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has detected genetic material from the bird flu virus in pasteurized milk. However, the FDA emphasizes that this discovery does not indicate the presence of infectious virus and that the milk supply remains safe for consumption. The FDA is conducting further tests to confirm its findings. The risk of infection from milk with viral fragments is considered negligible as the genetic material cannot replicate independently.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has identified genetic evidence of H5N1 avian influenza in the nation’s milk supply through testing. However, the agency emphasizes that its tests cannot determine if the contamination originated from a live virus or remnants that had been destroyed during pasteurization. Despite the presence of HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) traces detected via qPCR testing, the FDA maintains the safety of the U.S. milk supply due to effective pasteurization practices and stringent measures to prevent contaminated milk from entering the supply chain.
