{"id":889,"date":"2024-05-01T12:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/usda-says-it-is-testing-beef-for-h5n1-bird-flu-virus\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:04:53","slug":"usda-says-it-is-testing-beef-for-h5n1-bird-flu-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/usda-says-it-is-testing-beef-for-h5n1-bird-flu-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA says it is testing beef for H5N1 bird flu virus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Food safety officials say they\u00a0are\u00a0testing beef, including ground beef from grocery stores, for the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus that\u2019s spreading in dairy cattle. <\/p>\n

The United States Department of Agriculture said on Monday that it is conducting three separate beef safety studies.\u00a0The agency is sampling ground beef purchased at grocery stores in states where dairy cattle have tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus.\u00a0 It is also taking samples of muscle tissue from sick cows that have been culled from their herd. <\/p>\n

Finally, they\u2019re conducting cooking studies, which will inoculate ground beef with a \u201cvirus surrogate\u201d and\u00a0cook it to different temperatures to see how much virus is killed under each\u00a0<\/strong>heat\u00a0<\/strong>setting. <\/p>\n

The move comes as one country, Colombia,\u00a0placed restrictions\u00a0on beef and beef products coming from US states where dairy herds have tested positive for avian influenza. <\/p>\n

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    The US Beef Export Foundation said the restrictions \u201chave no scientific basis.\u201d\u00a0 The US is the largest supplier of beef to Colombia, accounting for about $40 million last year, the foundation said. <\/p>\n

    The USDA is testing beef with polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing, a highly sensitive lab test that can pick up even traces of inert genetic material from the virus, if any is present.\u00a0 Any positive samples will be further evaluated for live virus, USDA said. <\/p>\n

    \u201cUSDA is confident that the meat supply is safe.\u00a0 USDA has a rigorous meat inspection process\u201d and \u201cmultiple safeguards in place to protect consumers,\u201d the agency said in a statement sent to media outlets on Monday. <\/p>\n

    \u201cWe recommend consumers properly handle raw meats and cook to a safe internal temperature,\u201d which kills bacteria and viruses in meat,\u00a0the agency added. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Food safety officials say they\u00a0are\u00a0testing beef, including ground beef from grocery stores, for the presence of the H5N1 bird flu virus that\u2019s spreading in dairy cattle. The United States Department of Agriculture said on Monday that it is conducting three separate beef safety studies.\u00a0The agency is sampling ground beef purchased at grocery stores in states …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"loftocean_post_primary_category":0,"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":0,"loftocean-view-count":578,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","tinysalt_single_site_header_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header_style":"sticky-scroll-up","tinysalt_single_site_footer_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_footer":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}