Food and Drug Administration would plan to move large expanses of its basic function to states after mass layoffs
The Ministry of Health and Social Services has not spared the work of the ax by the so -called Ministry of Government (DOGE), and major changes are being established to food security standards and communications on public health risks – and not in good sense.
According to a report from Thursday of NBC News, in February, the Food and Drug Administration – a subsidiary of HHS – discreetly closed an investigation into a multi -state epidemic. Coli who killed a person and defeated dozens in November. An internal report obtained by NBC has shown that the FDA engaged in “no public communication linked to this epidemic”. The internal report did not appoint suppliers and distributors involved in the sale of contaminated products, which caused infections in 15 states. In short, the epidemic would have remained outside the public’s file if it had not been obtained by NBC – a reversal striking of recent efforts of transparency implemented
A few hours after the fall of the NBC report, CBS News published its own reports indicating that the Food and Drug Administration plans to end most of their food inspection and security operations and to transfer these functions to individual state agencies. An FDA spokesperson denied the report.
The FDA already contracts a large amount of inspection work on low -risk food categories, and this is not the first time that the responsibility for the application of food security of food has been a subject of discussion within the HHS. But the discourse on the end of routine security inspections is sufficient to raise concerns among consumers when the administration is also in the process of quietly reporting on a deadly E epidemic. Coli and discuss the end of routine safety inspections of weeks after drawing thousands of its employees. Earlier this month, the FDA also announced that it would suspend quality control programs in food test laboratories, citing the recent reduction of staff as the main cause of reduction. .
Food security is not the only feature at risk of the FDA. The theorist of the Connité Vaccine known and secretary of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the FDA a main target of his Crackpot reforms in HHS. During its few months at the helm, health systems under the control of Kennedy withdrew the financing of the promotion of influenza vaccines, taken movements to eliminate fluorine from drinking water, canceled planning development meetings for critical vaccines and drawn up the federal response to a fatal epidemic in Texas.
Americans are precipitous with main institutional changes that could make them less healthy, less safe and eliminate the responsibility of companies that push dangerous products on the market. The elimination of services and protections is not limited to the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The mass layoffs of federal employees in all sectors of the government will affect everything, from social security to education, to daily weather report. According to a Thursday report Los Angeles Times, strength The dismissals of the National Weather Service decide the ability of meteorologists to collect data and produce precise and precise forecasts.
“Cracks are really starting to show,” said a climatologist Times.
