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 ...

Milk parents purchase the grocery store is still safe to buy and drink What's paused is the proficiency testing that measures how well labs are performing milk safety checks Parents do not need to be ...

President Donald Trump's efforts to cut down the federal workforce may be linked to the Department of Health and Human Services and FDA suspending milk quality tests. Existing and developing programs ...

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 ...

Cows graze at a dairy farm in La Grange, Texas, that sells raw milk to the public. Raw milk is getting fresh scrutiny, as bird flu continues to infect dairy herds. But while federal authorities have ...