More fear mongering.
In my own experience, USDA and FDA add very little to food safety and food security. They are bureaucrats, in a complex system, who are extremely slow, take a long time to decide anything, and often spend a lot of time and money chasing down useless, dead ends.
No farmers are food processors are in the business of killing their customers. nearly all things done for food safety are implemented within the industry, voluntarily, new quality initiatives, mutual self-policing, inspections, testing and reporting.
If the USDA and FDA were shut down permanently, you would see no change in food safety.
People would be surprised to know how very few health inspectors there are outside the big cities. Here in podunkville, when you call in to the Health Dept. to complain about a restaurant, they tell you they don’t have the manpower to visit this far away.
About 25 years ago, the one and only local slaughter house inspector retired and wasn’t replaced.
Yep. Once a corporate, large-scale system is set up to accomodate inspections, no one is going to change that on a very temporary basis.
Strange, I had an FDA inspection today. Nothing big, just nitpicking as they want to do.
In addition the FDA doesn’t work the same way that USDA does when it comes to inspections.
FDA inspections are more in response to product issues and periodic inspections for confirmation. They don’t have anyone onsite 100% of the time in a drug facility or food plant the way that USDA does.
FAA and Defense does for very specific places, but never heard of FDA doing this unless there was a specific product issue.