In the past few years, the causes of diseases transmitted by food have had devastating consequences that raised the public’s concern. Bacteria in sick baby milk. Delicious meat was killed with 10 people and led to 60 hospitals in 19 states. Tangible bullet apple bags young children.
In every outbreak, federal officials in the state and the United States linked the points from every sick person with a polluted product and ensured the withdrawal of food that responds from the shelves.
Some of these employees and their roles are now threatened to end the outbreaks of the outbreaks through the Trump administration measures to increase government competence, which are at the top of the discounts that are already made by the Food Department that suffers from lack of funding in the food and drug management.
Like the food safety system itself, the discounts and new administrative obstacles spread through a group of federal and state agencies.
In the Food and Drug Administration, the freezing of government credit card spending that the Trump administration has requested to hinder employees from buying food to conduct routine tests for deadly bacteria. In the states, the reduction of $ 34 million by the FDA can reduce the number of employees who guarantee that contaminated products-such as tin bags from the apples loaded with bullets sold in 2023-are tested in laboratories and removed store shelves. FDA staff also prepare for more Trump administration staff discounts.
In the Ministry of Agriculture, a committee that studies deadly bacteria was recently dissolved, even while developing advice on how to target pathogens that could close the kidneys. The members of the committee were also developing an educational plan for new parents on the bacteria that could live in the renewable form of children. “More work will be banned on your report and recommendations recommendations,” read an email to the Trump administration to the committee members.
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Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the country’s Minister of Health, has very interesting food. He has already pledged to take out colored additives and I started with effort Suleiman is called the study of food content and potential toxins in the infant format. However, some of the most dangerous food problems in recent years were pathogens.
Last year, nearly 500 people were transferred to the hospital and died 19 years due to diseases that transported food and have a well -known, double or more than the previous year, according to the USPirg Educe, a support group. (Most food poisoning is not reported or traced into a specific food.)
Government cuts affect a number of areas that officials were wandering to prevent the repetition of the last disease. Below are the details of some changes:
The main committees are closed
Often in response to a fatal outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration Committee (FDA) has covered and agriculture in details to find ways to improve detection and reduce disease and death. The committee has also studied how to spread the changing technology quickly – including artificial intelligence and genome sequence – to protect public health.
The Trump administration suddenly closed the committee earlier this month, noting the executive order Reducing government bureaucracy. He called for the stopping of the work for the committee called the National Consulting Committee for Microbiological Standards for Foods and also the National Consulting Committee for Meat and Poultry.
The microbial committee was studying how to identify infants more accurately who would be more likely to be risk than Cronobacter Sakazakii,. Deadly bacteria This contributed to the decision to temporarily close the children’s formula in the Abbott Nutrition in Michigan in 2022. The committee planned to advise the providers who should use a sterile liquid form instead of the powder formula, which is not sterile.
Abe Sneider, a food scientist at Cornell University and head of a sub -committee on the formula of infants, said she was disappointed by the decision to stop the committee’s work. Dr. Snyder said: “The safety of the crushed form of infants is of decisive importance and I think it is important to most people.”
The FDA (FDA) did not answer a question about whether Kyle Diamantas, head of the Food Department, was involved in the committee’s decision. Mr. Diamantas, a former corporate lawyer, was working on cases defending Abbott due to the claims of infant format.
Michael Hansen, a scientist and member of the committee from the reports of the consumer, a group of advocacy, said his team in the committee was trying to define certain types of coli’s coli, which is likely to cause bloody diarrhea and kidney failure, among other efforts.
He said that the decision to end the committee was a shock and destroyed nearly two years of working to harness the genetic sequence – technology that is now widely available and at reasonable prices – to reduce the outbreak of the disease. He said that the team benefited from the voluntary working hours from the senior experts in this field.
Dr. Hansen said: “It is not logical to get rid of this committee, because if you want to do a full cost of cost and return, then all the work we do was really free.”
The spending freezes
Scientists in FDA and food products laboratories said that they were prevented from some routine use of government credit cards due to Executive Support Eileon Musk’s efforts to be called government efficiency.
A spokeswoman for the FDA (FDA) said.
I have slowed or stopped some grocery -bacterial elements tests Oyster Food filling for PFAs, chemicals associated with cancer and reproductive damage.
Credit cards can be used in the investigation of the lestia in the frozen shakes that have been dispensed with in the homes of the elderly sponsorship that has been linked to dozens of deaths. The agency’s scientists said that for other works, the employees faced a red tape.
“Even hours can be concerned in the outbreak of the disease,” said Suzanne Mine, an assistant professor at Yale Public Health School and a former Food and Drug Administration official (FDA) who heard the current employees about this position. “Any unacceptable delay when you deal with a product that can kill someone.”
Food safety inspections
In a rear message to the legislators, FDA officials (FDA) said that the agency employs about 443 food safety inspectors – much lower than the agency needed to inspect each food processing facility at the PACE conference. The agency has estimated that it would need about 1500 other workers to inspect 36,600 food, foreign and local facilities, once every five years or once every three years for producers at risk.
At this time, these inspectors are largely exempted from the loss of their jobs.
However, a team of fascist investigators is weak, according to Jim Jones, head of the agency’s food department in the last part of the Biden Administration. This team, known as Core, is coordinated with diseases control and prevention centers of connecting a group of patients to a specific food factory or farm field. The team follows the inspections and efforts made to ensure that polluted food is removed from store shelves.
Mr. Jones said the team was recently built as a completely distant operation that is likely to be affected when orders were placed to return to work in federal offices this month. Workers who live more than 50 miles from the FDA until late April to start working on a federal site.
“So, their options are either to move so that you can go to a federal facility, or leave,” said Mr. Jones. “There is nothing strategic about who is arrested in this pickled.”
Through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), inspections decreased during the epidemic and did not return to the higher levels before 2020. At the same time, the amount of imported foods increased, Including invalida That was found repeatedly with PFAS.
Discounts to countries
Once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined a factory that was the source of pollution, it often depends on state inspectors to investigate the site. In criticizing the discounts, Senator Richard Blumental, Democrat Connecticut, Indicate The state inspectors performed about half of the inspections of food processing facilities, 90 percent of product safety inspections and all retail store visits.
FDA (FDA) also turns into public and state health officials into the possibility of foods that are likely to be contaminated by groceries’ shelves and testing them in a network of 55 public health laboratories throughout the United States. If a product is called, state officials also check groceries to ensure that food is removed.
A late step from the Biden era was severely limited to the funding that the FDA sends to the states and to laboratories that are doing cash. The latest financing reduction of $ 34 million applies to states and public health laboratories. The agency said in a letter to Mr. Bluomantal that the cuts were made because the Food Department had a fixed budget and the costs were increasing due to inflation.
On Minnesota, garlic delegation to the Ministry of Agriculture has decreased steadily since 2019, with the latest deeper pieces and may lead to demobilization of workers. He said that the loss of financing may slow the important work of taking out bad food from stores.
This work has proven particularly important after officials discovered very high levels of bullets in cinnamon in snacks in the apple bag for children. The FDA ended Send a warning letter To the dollar tree because of its failure to withdraw bags quickly.
“The timing is the important piece,” said Mr. Petersen. “We want to take care of these people and work on that.”
Public Health Laborators stated that the funds amounted to about 30 percent of their financing, which helps them to respond to the outbreak more quickly than FDA
For example, laboratory officials in Maryland and New York bought a liver in stores that have proven to be laboratory officials in Maryland and New York in stores that have proven positive for the same strain that fell ill. Commercial group for The laboratories expected that Budget discounts can delay responses – and lead to more people’s illness.