US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts

How FDA cuts could make the food and drug supply less safe

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March that he would eliminate thousands of jobs from federal health agencies, he promised that he would spare the inspectors who keep America’s food and drugs safe by scrutinizing factories around the world.Kennedy kept his word and didn’t fire inspectors, but key support staffers who handled travel arrangements, reimbursements and more are gone, according to two current…

After RFK Jr. cut food safety inspectors, the strained FDA struggles to close the gap

The potential disruptions to FDA’s inspection force are so great that agency leaders recently expedited plans to hire outside contractors.

The FDA Won't Be Bothering With Food Safety So Much Anymore

"the big lettuce" by Keithius is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Donald Trump has never been a big fan of food safety. During his 2016 campaign, he railed against the “food police” and, once he was elected, pushed for major cuts to the FDA and USDA (some he got, some he didn’t). Neither is our man Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said that one of his big missions as secretary of Health and Human Services is to legalize the sale of raw milk everywhe…

FDA Cuts Lab Quality Control Program, May End Routine Food Safety Inspections

Maybe mass firings at critical federal agencies are a bad idea!

FDA is quietly drawing up plans to end routine food safety inspections, report claims

The FDA denied that it was planning to make the changes

The FDA Buried an E. Coli Outbreak. Now It’s Scaling Back Food Safety

The FDA is reportedly considering offloading most routine food safety inspections to state agencies amid mass DOGE layoffs.