FDA Suspends Safety Checks for Food

In the wake of mass firings throughout the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration suspended its safety checks of food due to lack of staff.

The mass firings were done at the behest of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” a subset of a White House IT team rather than a government department.

This comes after the DOGE-driven staff cuts forced the FDA to halt its efforts to improve testing for bird flu in milk, cheese and pet food.

Email from the Food Emergency Response Network said, “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.”

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