US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
Cuts of as many as 20,000 HHS staff upend public health research
FDA's program to improve bird flu testing in food also suspended
Suspension affects tests for Cyclospora in spinach, glyphosate in barley
Many #Americans will sicken and even die needlessly as a result.
#FDA suspends #food safety quality checks after staff cuts.
“FDA's program to improve bird flu testing in food also suspended”
Of course it is! It disappears if you stop counting.
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-suspends-food-safety-quality-checks-after-staff-cuts-2025-04-17/
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Eat locally. Small operations are inspected by their state health services departments. 
#FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/
We're told the FDA is now making plans to
end most of its routine food safety inspections
That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state & local authorities, under this plan.
The FDA is ultimately responsible for the safety of much of the US food supply that's distributed over state lines, like packaged products, seafood, eggs & produce.
Our food, drugs, water, air, money, consumer products... are at risk.
#FDA #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Resist #April19 #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
#ecoli #foodsafety #FDA #romainelettuce
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236
FDA RECALL
Brand: Dorado Nutrition/Space Garden
Product: Spermidine/Spermidin
Issue: Undeclared wheat
Date: 04/16/2025
More: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/supplement-manufacturing-partner-inc-issues-recall-dorado-nutrition-brand-spermidine-supplement-10mg #FDA #recall
The Food and Drug Administration (#FDA) has already lost 19% of its staff, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC) 18%, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (#CMS) 9%.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115145
An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients
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FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-recalls-two-dozen-drugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
FDA Stops Regulating French Dressing After Lobbying https://www.diningandcooking.com/2019791/fda-stops-regulating-french-dressing-after-lobbying/ #association #ConsciousConsumers #fda #FoodStandards #francais #france #French #FrenchDressing #FrenchVinegar #ingredients #innovation #InsiderApp #Italian #petition #ReducedFat #Salad #sauces #Vinegar #water
Support workers at #FDA who were laid off earlier this month were told they weren't needed; their work was being done by others at #HHS. Now the agency is finalizing plans to contract out their work, @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social reports. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-replace-laid-off-employees-contractors/
https://www.alojapan.com/1247040/gov-wes-moores-sales-pitch-in-tokyo-is-turning-a-few-heads/ Gov. Wes Moore’s sales pitch in Tokyo is turning a few heads #AutofocusEyewear #FDA #Gov.WesMoore #InnovationAward #maryland #news #startup #Tokyo #TokyoNews #ViXion #東京 #東京都 Taku Nonaka doesn’t see much of a choice for his Tokyo-based technology company, ViXion: He must expand to the United States. But even after winning an innovation award at the annual CES tech conference in Las Vegas for ViXion’s “autofocus eyewear” — glasses that use a s…
The problem with the WARNING is that because of PBMs these #counterfeit products get distributed by pharmacies.
I don’t remember if it’s retail pharmacies or facility pharmacies where this kept happening, but there was a PBS Frontline documentary about how PBMs cause counterfeit medication to appear in legitimate supply chains.
So how would any of us know??
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USFDA/bulletins/3db4ac9
#FDA #recall (sort of)
#PBM #counterfeitMeds #ozempic
“Health and Human Services Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say” - #WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/department-health-human-services-possible-collapse/
“If the situation is not addressed, “pretty soon, the department will be completely open to external actors to get at the largest databases in the world that have all of our public health information in them, our sensitive drug testing clinical trial information at the #NIH or #FDA or different organizations’ mental health records,” the source claims…”
"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/rfk-jr-hhs-fda-deep-state-00286826
In life sciences, a press release serves as a strategic means to disseminate updates such as clinical trial results, #FDA approvals, product launches, research breakthroughs, and #corporate #development ... https://zurl.co/HqpVO #Lifesciences #pressreleasedistribution #media
The Trump regime is actively trying tohurt the American ppl. #FDA this wk: it’d stop requiring drugmakers to use animal testing & instead permit AI. I don’t want a robot to tell me whether a drug is going to hurt, maim or kill me. I want a human being to make that judgment based on human science.
There’re things that all of us have taken for granted: food inspection, AQ control, drug safety, deposit INSUR… -never had to think about them.
#Sabotage #PublicSafety #USPol
https://www.editorialboard.com/do-liberals-still-trust-the-government/
