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This is madness. US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts.

So I might be wrong but it looks like Elon’s gutting of the US FDA has now cut
so many workers that we can longer test milk for pathogens. Like we have been
doing for something like 100 years.

Just one more example of Trump trying to burn America to the ground.

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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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.

Effective Monday, the agency suspended its proficiency testing program for Grade "A" raw milk and finished products, according to the email sent in the morning from the FDA's Division of Dairy Safety and addressed to "Network Laboratories."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-211319846.html


Thanks to DUer Eugene for posting this first.