Posted inCattle Dairy Products Disease Rates Infant Formulas Livestock Milk Tests (Medical) Viruses Federal Officials Find No Live Bird Flu Virus in Initial Milk Tests The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of. Posted by By Noah Weiland and Benjamin Mueller
Posted inInfant Formulas Justice Department Recalls and Bans of Products Justice Department Investigating Abbott Infant Formula Plant Abbott shut down production at the plant last year amid “shocking” sanitation lapses, touching off a disruptive infant supply formula shortage. Posted by By Christina Jewett
Posted inFood Food and Drug Administration Food Contamination and Poisoning Infant Formulas Medicine and Health Politics and Government Regulation and Deregulation of Industry FDA Report Faults Agency’s Food Unit for Leaderless Dysfunction Spurred by the infant formula crisis, a panel found that the agency shied away from tough decisions, sometimes fearing confrontations with industry over enforcement of critical public health issues. Posted by By Christina Jewett