Anon Archived FDA halts food inspections during government shutdown. Glad I am a vegetarian. (nypost.com)
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Anon Archived FDA halts food inspections during government shutdown. Glad I am a vegetarian. (nypost.com)
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[–] 16015633? ago
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.
[–] 16015372? ago
Yeah, not like lettuce ever gets recalled.
[–] 16015432? [S] ago
Now we won’t have anyone monitoring that. We should all start cooking our foods and not eating meats and raw veggies.
[–] 16015333? ago
https://archive.ph/O1dzv :
'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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[–] 16015045? ago
Good thing pre-cut vegetables are top on the health departments list of sources of food born illness.
[–] 16015076? [S] ago
Who buys precut vegis? How lazy can you get?
[–] 16015102? ago
Who you think is buying all those pre-cut microgreens?