FDA halts food inspections during government shutdown
'The partial government shutdown has left America’s food industry in a pickle — as the Food and Drug Administration has been forced to suspend routine inspections of food-processing facilities. '
'The inspectors conduct about 160 routine food inspections per week and a third of those are of high-risk processing facilities, said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. '
'With the shutdown now in its 19th day, more than 50 FDA inspections of high-risk facilities — which handle items like soft cheese and seafood — have been nixed so far, the Washington Post reported. '
'It’s the rotten result of hundreds of FDA inspectors having been furloughed. '
'Gottlieb is relying on new legal guidance that he might be able bring back around 150 furloughed workers to conduct the inspections. '
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The FDA is a waste. They really don't "regulate" food at all.
Anyone can sell you anything as long as it does not create harm to the end user. The FDA does not say you cannot put cyanide into food you sell.
Its just a pension-making organization.