Pasteurization, a long-practiced food processing method, has been at the center of a polarizing debate.

FREDON — While shopping in a grocery store or dining in a restaurant, it may seem unrealistic to envision that the milk offered was squeezed from a cow only a few hours earlier in the day. But thanks ...

Kenyan officials have long pushed for milk to be pasteurized before it reaches the marketplace, but much of the milk sold is not pasteurized because small-scale vendors and producers can’t afford the ...

The push for raw milk is based on deeply flawed arguments, as public health and food safety experts near-universally agree.

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 ...

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