US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts

WASHINGTON — When U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced widespread job cuts in his department last month, he said that the safety inspectors who oversee U.S. food and medicine would not be affected.

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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…

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"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…

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