Federal officials and scientific experts say the virus detected in retail milk samples may be inactive and unable to cause an infection.
Federal officials say the risk to the public remains low after the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that tests of commercially available milk detectedof highly pathogenic avian influenza among dairy cows that was first confirmed late last month.
"A car gets in an accident. It's no longer functioning. You can't drive it. It doesn't do anything that a car does. But you sift through the rubble and you could still find the instruction manual that tells it how to work," he said. The FDA said it detected bird flu in milk using quantitative polymerase chain reaction tests, which"do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers."
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