Federal tests find no signs of bird flu virus in Canadian retail milk
A shopper walks past the milk and dairy display case at a Target store in Manhattan. Photo credit: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
June 3, 2024
Canadian monitoring is underway as the U.S. grapples with an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle. Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) laboratories have tested 142 retail milk samples from across all 10 provinces, the agency said.
“There’s no evidence showing that [H5N1] is threatening our milk supply,” noted Siyun Wang, CSFS Associate and associate professor of food, nutrition and health at UBC.