Cottage cheese and sour cream are safe amid bird flu outbreak, FDA says NBC10 Philadelphia [Video]

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that dairy products including cottage cheese and sour cream are safe to eat amid the outbreak of the bird flu virus in dairy cows.

The agency has been conducting tests on 297 pasteurized retail dairy products after findings last week showed that fragments of the virus had gotten into the commercial milk supply.

The tests showed that the products didn’t contain live virus that could make people sick, the FDA said Wednesday.

The new results, though still preliminary, “affirm the safety of the U.S. commercial milk supply,” Don Prater, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said during the briefing. The samples come from 38 states.

In addition, the FDA has tested powdered infant and toddler formulas and found no evidence of bird flu virus. It was unclear how many formula samples were tested.

Prater said the latest …