FDA says most food inspections halted amid shutdown
Source: The Hill
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has suspended all routine domestic food facility inspections amid the partial government shutdown.
The agency, which oversees the majority of the country's food supply, typically conducts roughly 160 routine inspections per week, the Post reported.
Investigators during these routine checks typically look for unclean conditions, bug infestations and harmful contaminations.
We are doing what we can to mitigate any risk to consumers through the shutdown, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424562-fda-says-most-food-inspections-have-been-halted-amid-shutdown
Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)unblock
(52,332 posts)shocked, i tells ya.
it's almost as if industry had a hand in running government oversight....
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)who is sickened or dies while food inspections are on hiatus.
EarthFirst
(2,905 posts)LisaM
(27,840 posts)God, I hate this administration.
cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)GS5, making 30k to 35k per year, not counting locality increases and COLA.
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)some contaminated KFC ....
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)oldsoftie
(12,616 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Maybe that's why Trump suggests it may go on for months or years.
OMGWTF
(3,976 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... marginal, green hued meat in the back freezer, and you've been worrying what to do with it ... now would be a good time to ease it into the stream, perhaps? I don't see a problem for ACME.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)they (Bannon and Miller) want to see the systematic demise of the American people.
Paranoia is setting in.
Dorn
(523 posts)I did.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)right? More people will die from e coli, botulism, salmonella etc. soon, very soon, because these companies will see this as a vacation from regulation.