USDA experiments suggest H5N1 not viable in properly cooked ground beef
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 In an update today on food safety testing in light of H5N1 avian flu detections in some dairy cattle, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that inoculation of ground beef patties with a virus surrogate and cooking them to medium or well inactivated the virus. In other developments, federal officials during the same briefing announced more than $22.2 million in funding for efforts to control and respond to animal disease outbreaks,