Posted on 04/23/2025 3:25:01 AM PDT by EBH
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended its quality control program for testing fluid milk and other dairy products, citing reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division. This decision follows the termination and departure of 20,000 employees from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), part of a broader federal workforce reduction initiative.
Reuters reported, effective April 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has suspended its quality testing program for Grade A milk and other dairy products, citing massive staffing losses tied to federal budget cuts. While the move may seem bureaucratic, it carries potential health implications for anyone who regularly consumes dairy.
The program, which tested raw and finished milk products for contamination and safety compliance, was halted due to staffing shortages at the Moffett Center Proficiency Testing Laboratory. That facility played a central role in ensuring food labs across the country met high standards and could reliably detect harmful pathogens in your milk.
The FDA's proficiency testing programs are essential for ensuring consistency and accuracy across the nation's network of food safety laboratories. These quality control tests are also critical for laboratories to meet accreditation standards. The agency stated it is actively evaluating alternative approaches for the upcoming fiscal year and will keep participating laboratories informed as new information becomes available.
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So the bureaucratic state decided to stop milk testing, to embarrass the president and show what an evil person he is.
Find out who made this decision to stop milk testing and fire them. They chose to not do a core function, probably to save a trans milk study. Idiots.
BAM!
That quickly gets to the heart of what is almost certainly going on here.
This is identical to when cities run massive deficits, people vote against new taxes, and then cities cut police departments deep instead of laying off unnecessary positions.
Malicious compliance.
“That facility played a central role in ensuring food labs across the country met high standards and could reliably detect harmful pathogens in your milk.”
Not my milk. Not my pathogens.
Bureaucrats who are so easy to drop their core obligations probably shouldn’t be in anyone’s employ. Their dedication is clearly to the bureaucracy, not the public.
Is this possibly tests the manufacturers already perform, and the government doing it as well is simply redundant? Or is this malicious compliance as others have suggested?
CC
More punish your enemy deep state stuff. They don’t give a ship about the country’s citizenship.
Same exact headline as in a lit of other enwmedia outlets.
From a UK's Deep State rag.
Now I really smell a rat.
And it ain't in the milk.
...lot...enemedia...
Yet even with testing out reaks occured fairly regularly if you look it up so what good did the testing actually do?
Manufacturers of dairy products typically conduct their own testing to ensure the safety and quality of their products. This testing can include:
Microbiological Testing: To check for harmful bacteria such as Salmonella, Listeria, and E. coli.
Chemical Testing: To detect contaminants like pesticides, antibiotics, and other harmful substances.
Nutritional Analysis: To verify the nutritional content of the products.
Quality Control: To assess factors like taste, texture, and shelf life.
The testing program was suspended because FDA's Moffett Center Proficiency Testing Laboratory, part of its division overseeing food safety, "is no longer able to provide laboratory support for proficiency testing and data analysis," the email said.
An HHS spokesperson said the laboratory was already set to be decommissioned before the staff cuts and though proficiency testing would be paused during the transition to a new laboratory, dairy product testing will continue.
It actually sounds like the FDA testing is an audit and certification process for “food labs across the country.”
The FDA test labs are not the front line testing. The front line testing is the labs within food processing plants.
The “accreditation” process is what is being reviewed for an “alternate process.”
In my world (not food processing), national and international standards, together with private test labs, insure the quality and integrity of the process and product. No government agency at that level.
“While the move may seem bureaucratic...”
Seems like deep-state revenge, retribution, IMO.
A truly responsive organization would undertake an immediate review of its mission, resources, and staff, with an eye toward covering needs in a descending hierarchy of requirement and significance. Once that is done, restructuring staff to properly support the mission is the last step.
We shall see.
What service does this lab provide?
State health departments should be doing it, not fedgov...
Curious where in the constitution testing dairy products is listed?
Same people who run swat style raids on small cheese shops and Amish farmers selling raw milk?
I believe something is missing from this story.
Do we really need federal employees to test our milk?
Re-read the posted article, this is about the govt. FDA lab that helps certify the private labs across the country (at milk producers) that actually do the testing of milk. Milk testing continues unabated. Scary/anti-Trump media story.
(Also see post #12 on this thread...hat tip OCB)
Calif. inspection/testing info. for example:
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/Milk_and_Dairy_Food_Safety/Approved_Insp_Services.html
Every state has inspectors and producers’ have on-site/factory testing.
So which ia it?
Testing suspended due to staffing
Or
Because of transition to a new lab
Were they supposed to transition and that was cut too? You can see the confusion.
Thanks
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