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

These days, there’s a lot of talk about milk pasteurization. As the controversial consumption of raw milk is increasingly garnering attention, I became curious about pasteurization in general. And ...

The discovery of bird flu virus particles in the commercial milk supply has reignited public interest in the century-long debate over pasteurizing milk. Sales of raw milk, or milk that has not ...

Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Allison Elyse Gualtieri is a Senior News Editor for CBSNews.com, ...

The sale of unpasteurized milk remains illegal in the dairy state, but more than three dozen bills supporting raw milk have ...

More than three dozen bills are trying to increase access to raw milk. Here's why public health and policy experts are ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), recently announced that the FDA-approved commercial milk pasteurization process effectively ...

Proponents of raw milk are pushing to make the unpasteurized product more widely available and easy to obtain.

WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But ...

Traces of the bird flu virus were found in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as the agency advises that the milk is safe to ...