California suspends company’s sale of raw milk after new outbreak of bird flu

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California suspends company’s ***** of raw milk after new outbreak of bird flu

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state officials have suspended a company’s sales of raw

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to retailers amid

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Raw milk sales by Raw Farm, located in Fresno, was blocked from

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, the

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reported. However, their products already on shelves can still be sold, according to the newspaper.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture are now investigating.

“All Raw Farm operations are currently under quarantine, from herds to bottled product, which means that all raw milk product distribution is suspended,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement to The Independent.

The Independent has contacted Raw Farm for comment.

On Sunday the state’s Department of Public Health warned residents against drinking the batch of cream top, whole raw milk from Fresno County’s Raw Farm LLC and

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. Raw Farm LLC has issued a voluntary recall of the affected lot code 20241109.

A Raw Farm batch bottled on November 9 was also recalled, the Times reported.

The sales suspension comes amid contradictory

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test results this month. County public health officials were finding bird flu in raw milk bought at stores, while state officials weren’t finding the virus in bulk tests, the Times reports. A new round of tests on Raw Farm products turned up positive Wednesday, and officials suspended sales.

Raw Farm owner Mark McAfee told the Times that his cows are indeed infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus. He said he wasn’t aware of it until this week, however, because the cows are “so healthy that they don’t show the classic signs or symptoms.”

The Fresno County-based Raw Farm issued a voluntary recall of a batch of raw milk this month (California Department of Public Health)

The sales suspension comes as human cases of dangerous H5N1 bird flu have risen across the country.

The Centers for ******** Control and Prevention says there were

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cases across seven states as of Friday. The majority of the cases are in California.

The agency reported the

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last week. The child’s condition is still unclear.

The uptick in bird flu comes as

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, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, continues to tout the consumption of raw

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. Kennedy has pledged that what he characterized as the “aggressive suppression” of raw milk is about to end and revealed he

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a proponent of raw milk (AFP via Getty Images)

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“We are in

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. I mean, there’s virus everywhere around us at this point,” Dr. Marcela Uhart, a wildlife veterinarian with the University of Cal-Davis’ One Health Institute,  said

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. “This virus is circulating left and right in mammals and in birds, as far as we can tell, some of them are not showing any signs of ********.”

The virus is spread to humans via several pathways. Farm workers can inhale infected particles, pick up germs from ***** animals and other surfaces and then touch their faces and eyes. Consumers can also get it by drinking raw cow’s milk.

Those who have had no contact with infected poultry or other sources of contamination are likely at

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. No infections have been reported from eating properly cooked poultry or poultry products or proper handling of poultry meat.

With reporting from Julia Musto

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