The FDA has suspended quality control checks - MAGA !!

[Pluvious]

This should be Today's Facepalm post, but it's not even close to being amusing

You may soon be on your own when it comes to avoiding contaminated food and foodborne illnesses.

The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories due to staffing cuts, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

The proficiency testing program of the FDA's Food Emergency Response Network is designed to ensure consistency and accuracy across the agency's network of about 170 labs that test food for pathogens and contaminants to prevent foodborne illness. The program will be suspended at least through Sept. 30, Reuters reported.

"Unfortunately, significant reductions in force, including a key quality assurance officer, an analytical chemist, and two microbiologists at FDA's Human Food Program Moffett Center have an immediate and significant impact on the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) Proficiency Testing (PT) Program," says the email sent on Tuesday from FERN's National Program Office and seen by Reuters.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2025/04/18/fda-suspending-food-safety-quality-checks-how-protect-yourself-salmonella-listeria/83157698007/

[dalton99a]

1. No need. Because billionaires eat a different kind of food

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. But now who will test the billionaires to see if *they're* safe for consumption?

They seem to have an awfully high spoilage rate.

[Bayard]

3. May trump get a whopping case of food poisoning in his Big Mac

We are about to get a wave of new horrifying headlines.