From Reuters:
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
The proficiency testing program of the FDA's Food Emergency Response Network is designed to ensure consistency and accuracy across the agency's network of about 170 labs that test food for pathogens and contaminants to prevent food-borne illness.
The firing and departure of as many as 20,000 HHS employees have upended public health research and disrupted the agency's work on areas like bird flu and drug reviews. President Donald Trump hopes to slash as much as $40 billion from HHS.
"Unfortunately, significant reductions in force, including a key quality assurance officer, an analytical chemist, and two microbiologists at FDA's Human Food Program Moffett Center have an immediate and significant impact on the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Proficiency Testing (PT) Program," says the email sent on Tuesday from FERN's National Program Office and seen by Reuters...
Sure, but on the other hand, these people use big, smarty-pants words like "analytical" and "microbiologist" and "proficiency" so they're probably snotty, college-educated elitists who you shouldn't trust anyway.
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1 comment:
You must listen to that liberal stuff.
On the right, the true cure for what ails us is tax cuts for the wealthy.
I have NO idea why the GOP SCOTUS did not rule for tax cuts instead of over turning Roe. Tax cuts no doubt would solve the health problems of pregnant women and abortions would naturally become extint.
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