USDA Announces They Will Begin Testing Ground Beef Samples For Bird Flu With PCR Test. Colombia Bans Imports

According to a number of media reports and health authorities, an avian flu outbreak (H5N1) has reportedly contained a number of pasteurized milk samples sold at stores, prompting concern that the reported virus is mutating and spreading in the food supply, along with reports that allege the virus can now jump from cow-to-cow.

Now the USDA is beginning to test beef supplies. The tests will utilize a PCR test, the same ones used during the Covid-19 pandemonium, in states that have reportedly confirmed positives in tainted milk samples, according to Bloomberg, citing an email from the USDA. They will use those tests to determine “whether any viral particles are present.”