DeRegulateAndSelfRegulate
One more reason to stay north of the 49th parallel?
Leah Douglas of Reuters has the story:
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...
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...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."
Grade "A" milk, or fluid milk, meets the highest sanitary standards.
The testing program was suspended because FDA's Moffett Center Proficiency Testing Laboratory, part of its division overseeing food safety, "is no longer able to provide laboratory support for proficiency testing and data analysis," the email said...
As Erik Loomis over at LGM notes, there is a reason milk and dairy products are rigorously regulated and tested in the States given the history of bacterial blooms and the use of formaldehyde to contain them in the previous guilded times of the 19th century.
Sheesh.
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Truth be told, this latest development reminds me a little bit of the days when we, up here, had a government/regime that favoured self-regulation by the titans of the 'bacterial-blooms-in-the-meat-cutters' industry.
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3 comments:
Well now, coming to milk drinkers in the USA, Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Escherichia coli, Listeria, Brucella, and Salmonella. YUM!
Can't drink the milk, and the romaine in your salad will have you hurling and a shit'n big time, but there's just too much government regulation!
(sciency snark on...)
And transgenically, if they put it behind the whey acid protein promoter, they probably reckon that, sans regulation, they can now approve massive amounts of no-longer used NIH funding to express and secrete just about anything they want into the cow's milk, including, say, digital NFT's that taste like blueberry fruit loops that also regulate voting and/or grift susceptibility behaviours.
Or some such thing.
(sciency snark now off...)
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