The SFA said all imported milk must undergo heat treatment processes shown to be effective in killing bacteria and viruses.
“All imported milk must also undergo heat treatment processes, such as pasteurisation, that have been shown to be effective in killing bacteria and viruses, including the influenza virus.” The USDA believed that wild birds, which can carry the virus, had passed it to cattle in Texas. The outbreak then expanded as cows were shipped to other states.
US scientists confirmed that it is the first time that a human has contracted the virus not from a bird, but a cow, and this finding was Professor William Chen, director of the Food Science Technology Programme, and the Future Ready Food Safety Hub at NTU, told ST that the pasteurisation process currently applied on dairy products worldwide is effective in inactivating or killing pathogens including the bird flu virus.
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