FDA Guts Food Safety Testing in Latest Move to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

The Food and Drug Administration has suspended quality control tests for a vital food safety program and is planning to end virtually all routine food safety inspections, according to a pair of reports from Reuters and CBS News. On top of that, NBC News has learned the FDA refused to publicize a recent E. coli outbreak in lettuce that ripped through 15 states. And it’s all just the latest batch of bad news for essential government programs courtesy of President Donald Trump and his dipshit conspiracy theorist at the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. First up, the FDA is suspending quality control testing at the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Proficiency Testing Program, according to a report from Reuters. The program tests for parasites like Cyclospora in spinach and the pesticide glyphosate in barley, among other foods. The suspension was announced internally at the FDA on Tuesday, according to Reuters, which cites an email distributed about staff ... Read full article.