As RFK Crusades to ‘Make America Healthy,’ FDA Suspends Milk Quality Tests

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed he wants to “Make America Healthy Again,” but pretty much everything he’s done since taking over as head of the Department of Health and Human Services seems destined to make Americans sicker and less healthy. Reuters reports that, under Kennedy, the Food and Drug Administration has announced it will suspend a quality control program that tests milk and other dairy products. The outlet cites emails from the FDA’s Division of Dairy Safety to report that the shuttered program, which involves proficiency testing for grade “A” raw milk and other dairy products, will no longer operate. Proficiency testing ensures that America’s network of food safety labs operates consistently with federal standards. Milk products have (historically) needed to comply with federal requirements to be considered Grade “A.” The suspension of the program comes as workforce cuts batter the agency’s food safety and nutrition division, Reuters notes. The FDA’s Moffett Center Prof ... Read full article.