Bird flu virus found in California supermarket milk sparking huge product recall

The UK Food Standards Agency has warned earthy oregon unpasteurised beverage and pick could incorporate harmful bacteria that tin origin nutrient poisoning and has advised radical with weaker immune systems not to devour it

Bird flu microorganism has been detected successful a earthy beverage sample from a supermarket starring producers to contented a recall.

The contaminated illustration came from Raw Farm, based successful Fresno, California, the largest shaper of earthy dairy products successful the state. Officials from the Santa Clara County nationalist wellness bureau detected the tainted illustration arsenic they tested earthy beverage successful retail stores crossed the authorities arsenic portion of a "a 2nd enactment of user protection".

In a November 24 statement, Raw Farm announced it had made a voluntary earthy beverage callback connected azygous lot. "All products from Raw Farm are rigorously tested for prime and tested by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

"We are arrogant of our satellite people protocols to supply to the marketplace lone the champion for our customers. All trial results performed by Raw Farm and each the authoritative tests by CDFA (the California State bureau that regulates and tests Raw Farm products) person been negative. There person been nary reported illnesses.

"However, Raw Farm is voluntarily recalling a azygous batch of Raw Farm milk, lone comprised of quart and fractional gallon fluid beverage sizes, with a Lot ID OF #20241109 produced connected November 9, 2024 with an expiration day of 11/27/24. No different products oregon Lot IDs are included."

Jennifer Nuzzo, manager of the Pandemic Center astatine Brown University, told the Los Angeles Times: “This isn’t surprising, fixed however rapidly H5N1 seems to beryllium spreading among farms successful California and fixed the information that these outbreaks connected farms are being discovered successful ample portion owed to bulk investigating of earthy beverage from farms. “What we don’t cognize is however overmuch hazard H5N1 poses to radical that portion unpasteurized, infected milk.”

Health officials lone recovered the H5 constituent of the microorganism wrong the collected sample, but they inactive judge it is contaminated with H5NI. No H5 cases person been reported successful California and it has not been recovered successful immoderate cows successful the state, The New York Post reported.

Mark McAfee, the proprietor of Raw Farm, said it was the archetypal clip immoderate of his products had tested affirmative for Bird Flu since helium began enrolling successful voluntary investigating successful April earlier this year. Raw Farm has accidentally enactment contaminated products to market.

The institution was connected to a salmonella outbreak successful October 2023 that near 165 radical infected, The New York Post reported. In February the institution needed to callback its earthy cheddar cheese products that had been tied to E. coli outbreaks successful respective states.

According to the UK-based Food Standards Agency, earthy oregon unpasteurised beverage and pick could incorporate harmful bacteria that tin origin nutrient poisoning.

It added radical with a weaker immune strategy are peculiarly susceptible to nutrient poisoning and should not devour it.

These include:

• people aged 65 oregon over
• people who are pregnant
• infants and tiny children
• people with compromised immune strategy specified arsenic crab patients