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FDA Guts Food Safety Testing in Latest Move to 'Make America Healthy Again' (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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First up, the FDA is suspending quality control testing at the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Proficiency Testing Program, according to a report from Reuters. The program tests for parasites like Cyclospora in spinach and the pesticide glyphosate in barley, among other foods. The suspension was announced internally at the FDA on Tuesday, according to Reuters, which cites an email distributed about staff leaving. The program oversees testing at about 170 labs, which will no longer get quality control checks through at least Sept. 30.

The changes to FERN are a direct result of staffing cuts at the HHS, which oversees agencies like the FDA and CDC. Kennedy is overseeing a reduction in force at the agency that’s seeing about 20,000 people leave through layoffs and departures.

Second, and perhaps even more troubling, is a report from CBS News that the FDA is currently making plans to end most food safety inspections at the federal level. The theory, if you can call it that, is that food safety is something that should only be done at the local level, and you don’t want federal inspectors to just “duplicate” work already done by states.

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[–] Waldo82@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

They do realize that a majority of republicans (who are elderly) are more susceptible to disease and death than the libs they think they're dunking on right? Same goes for the children they claim to be protecting by doing all this. The children and the elderly are most susceptible to sickness and death from it, that's not to say that anyone can't get sick from food-borne illness, but their own and the ones they claim to protect will be disproportionately affected.