Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. A "small but detectable quantity" of infectious H5N1 bird flu virus was ...

For the time being, it appears that the FDA will be suspending milk quality tests as a new lab gets built. First reported by Reuters, the Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control ...

The FDA reinstated the employees who run the proficiency testing program. After this story was published, Vianca N. Rodriguez Feliciano, Press Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health & Human ...

Raw milk is getting fresh scrutiny, as bird flu continues to infect dairy herds. A highly pathogenic strain of flu, deadly to birds, has spread to at least 58 herds of dairy cattle in nine states, and ...

The dairy safety program, which was created to monitor avian flu risks, has dried up as the agency shuts down labs and reshuffles resources. The FDA has suspended its milk testing program due to ...

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety ...