Milk from bulk storage tanks could be used for foot-and-mouth disease testing
Researchers at The Pirbright Institute and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory on Plum Island USA, have shown it could be possible to detect foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) in pooled milk samples stored in bulk tanks. These encouraging results indicate that milk testing could contribute to disease surveillance both during and after outbreaks.