Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. A "small but detectable quantity" of infectious H5N1 bird flu virus was ...

More than three dozen bills are trying to increase access to raw milk. Here's why public health and policy experts are ...

The sale of unpasteurized milk remains illegal in the dairy state, but more than three dozen bills supporting raw milk have ...

The discovery of bird flu virus particles in the commercial milk supply has reignited public interest in the century-long debate over pasteurizing milk. Sales of raw milk, or milk that has not ...

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Extensive testing of pasteurized commercially purchased milk and other dairy products from 38 states has found no evidence of live H5N1 bird flu virus, Food and Drug Administration officials said at a ...

Heating raw milk spiked with H5N1 to temperatures commonly used in commercial pasteurization resulted in a decrease in infectious virus within seconds to minutes, according to a brief study, though ...

Backers of raw milk are pushing to make the potentially dangerous product more widely available, even as a new outbreak ...

In the EU-funded project MicroMilk, researchers have developed a novel method for pasteurization of milk with microwaves. The system preserves the valuable components of milk, and is also suitable for ...

Five friends wanted to make hand-crafted organic hummus, so they enlisted brothers, sisters, and neighbors in multiple rounds of taste-tests until they had three perfect recipes. In 2011, they ...

Results of tests run by the Food and Drug Administration show that pasteurization is working to kill off bird flu in milk and other dairy products, the agency says. "In addition to preliminary results ...