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State begins monthly bulk-tank testing amid national HPAI spillover to dairy cattle; milk pasteurization remains effective
Summary
Agency food-safety staff told the Senate Agriculture Committee the cattle strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) appears to spread cattle-to-cattle or via fomites; Vermont has begun monthly bulk-tank testing of dairy farms and said pasteurization inactivates the virus.
Eby Florie, director of Food Safety and Consumer Protection at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, told the Senate Agriculture Committee that the agency and federal partners are monitoring a novel HPAI strain that has spilled over from birds into dairy cattle in other states and that the state has started monthly bulk-tank surveillance of Vermont dairy farms.
“We are testing each one of our care cow dairy farms once a month,” Florie said, describing a nascent surveillance program the agency began with USDA collaboration; she reported about…
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