FDA Testing Cheese For Bird Flu Amid Multi-State Outbreak

The Food and Drug Administration has started testing aged raw cow's milk cheese for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1), otherwise known as bird flu.

The FDA says it started the testing in response to a bird flu outbreak in several states that is impacting poultry, dairy cows and people across the U.S.

Raw milk cheese is made with unpasteurized milk. In the United States cheese allowed to be made from raw milk must be aged for a minimum of 60 days to mitigate the risk from any pathogens, if present.

FDA field staff will collect hundreds of samples from warehouses and distribution hubs throughout the country. It will not collect samples at retail locations.

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FDA Testing Cheese For Bird Flu Amid Multi-State Outbreak

The FDA is testing cheese in response to a bird flu outbreak in several states that is impacting poultry, dairy cows and people across the U.S.

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[Margery]

Which is worse to not have stocked -- eggs or TP??

I don't like to make tough choices like that -I build in a safety net. My Pantry and freezer are always stocked up. Covid wasn't too much of a problem due to my habits of squirrelling stuff away.

But due to the fact that I always have several months of TP on my shelves at home, I'd say eggs. It's fridge stuff that runs out on me first.

- I never like to count on a grocery truck making it into town- and I've been right a LOT, not just in the Covid years.

Maybe the cold air is helping (or the flu went through earlier in the season and it burned out already) here. I haven't seen any real shortages, as in nothing in the coolers, but the most popular eggs do run out sometimes.

According to the website of the closest WF:

Larry Schultz certified organic, large eggs, 4.69 a dozen
365 organic, omega-3, cage-free plus, large eggs. 4.79 a dozen
365 organic, cage-free plus, large eggs, 4.99 a dozen
Pete and Jerry's organic, free range, large eggs, $6.99 a dozen
Organic Valley organic, large eggs, 6.99 a dozen
Organic Valley pasture-raised, large eggs, 6.99 a dozen

All the rest of the eggs on the website are other sizes, have more than 12 in the carton, are liquid (whites), or already boiled.
I'm glad there's a truck tomorrow. My favorite eggs (Vital Farms organic, pasture-raised, large) are evidently sold out, and I need some to make bread.

Sad that I know the various truck schedules (days and times) for the grocery stores I go to

OTOH, I can walk to WF and the good local grocery chain. What great "corner grocery stores"

I see eye to eye with you - I may not know the truck schedules currently but I got to know them almost immediately when the highways blew out 2 years ago with the big floods across our province. Me and everyone else in town.

I use 3 eggs a day (I like eggs) so I use almost 2 dozen a week. I usually have at least 1 full week on hand in the fridge and I buy 3- 4 dozen at a time so I don't have to buy them as often.

Right now I have a full dozen eggs on hand, (low for me) but I just bought 60 this morning. (5 dozen) which gives me 6 dozen on hand in my fridge or 3 weeks supply. I budget about $16 a week for eggs.

I bought the cheapest eggs so I can stick to my budget. These are 35cents an egg - I got 2 flats of 30 for $10.59 Canadian or $21.18 for 5 dozen. Free Range brown large eggs (my usual type) are $7.79 a dozen or 65 cents per egg and 5 dozen of those would be almost $40 ($38.95)

I'm only $5 or so over budget for the eggs for a weekly budget and it will last me 3 weeks by which time I can figure out what to do.

 

[TCC]

Oh WHAT a waste of good cheese if they should find a viral particle in there.

The good bacteria in a natural cheese made properly from real unpasteurized milk contains a multiplicity of good protective bacteria. It's like taking a really fine probiotic, only far nicer tasting. Or eating real sauerkraut. It does a person much good. It prevents infection by it's good bacteria making life impossible for the bad germs.

Occasionally cheese can become contaminated with Listeria, and that is cause for recall. But that isn't from inside the milk at the start of the process. It happens when people don't handle it properly along the way to the consumer.

Instead of hunting for germs in cheese, why not look for disastrous effects of mRNA vaccines everywhere? Instead of vilifying an innocent cheese?

I believe in defending cheese too. Nice to see other advocates

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Which is worse to not have stocked -- eggs or TP??

Depends on whether or not there are elderly people in the home.

We were down to the last tiny bit on the last roll, and I thought I was going to have to teach my elderly, frail Parents (one with dementia) how to use a squeeze travel bidet

Then I found one very small package of four very tiny rolls of TP (exorbitantly priced) in a grocery store, which tided us over until I was in a store when the TP hit the shelves

 

[mattfivefour]

I believe in defending cheese too. Nice to see other advocates

Yeah, there are many things I could eliminate from my diet. But I don't really want to cut the cheese.

 

[TrustandFaith]

Ummm... eggs?

Totally agree! If you run out of TP you can always tear off a strip of newspaper. Best use for it in this day and age!

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Totally agree! If you run out of TP you can always tear off a strip of newspaper. Best use for it in this day and age!

The ink is toxic . . .

Anymore, the paper probably is, too.

No more Sears and Robuck catalogues, either

Can't flush any of it . . . back to the "little house" days brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[Baby Yoda]

But I don't really want to cut the cheese.

And we thank you for that.

 

[TrustandFaith]

The ink is toxic . . .

Anymore, the paper probably is, too.

No more Sears and Robuck catalogues, either

Can't flush any of it . . . back to the "little house" days brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Oh this casts my mind back to an amazing trip to Ephesus years ago. Of all the amazing Greek/Roman architecture, the toilet house stands out in my memory. Toileting was a communal activity and as there was no toilet paper available in the Roman period, the issue of getting clean after using the restroom naturally arises. The clients used sponges attached to sticks that were stored in vinegar for hygienic purposes and washed in the channel with running clean water after each use. Imagine!

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Oh this casts my mind back to an amazing trip to Ephesus years ago. Of all the amazing Greek/Roman architecture, the toilet house stands out in my memory. Toileting was a communal activity and as there was no toilet paper available in the Roman period, the issue of getting clean after using the restroom naturally arises. The clients used sponges attached to sticks that were stored in vinegar for hygienic purposes and washed in the channel with running clean water after each use. Imagine!

They raised a sponge on a stick soaked in vinegar to Jesus on the cross . . . interesting parallel, and probably some cultural symbolism.
I surely hope it wasn't a used up sponge from a toilet house . . .
Although the garrison Soldiers were sadistic, as evidenced by their mockery and mean treatment of Jesus after sentencing, so anything's possible.
The stick would have had to be longer, though.