The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

The suspension is another disruption to the nation's food safety programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, as part of President Donald Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The FDA this month also suspended existing and developing programs that ensured accurate testing for bird flu in milk and cheese and pathogens like the parasite Cyclospora in other food products.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts/ar-AA1DlucF

 

It was Teddy Roosevelt who was responsible for creating the FDA. This is how he responded after hearing the news:

That's not good at all ,give producers a chance to adulterate their

products and they will ,in the chance for more profit ,now it seems

no one guarding the gates ,to ensure healthy dairy products , just

because Kennedy drinks raw milk ,does not mean the rest of the

population does .

 

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