FDA to suspend quality-control program for food testing due to staff cuts

[Hume]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is suspending a quality-control program for its food-testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 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 food-borne illness.

FDA to suspend quality-control program for food testing due to staff cuts

The FDA labs that test food to prevent illness have been affected by wider health and human services staff cuts

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[Hume]

LONDON/WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's mass layoffs included senior negotiators in talks with the pharmaceutical industry over renewing the user fee programs that fund the regulator's drug review system, six sources familiar with the matter said.
The firings of most of the negotiators and their project managers throw into disarray the complex process of reauthorizing the agreements, overseen by Congress, under which big pharma and generic drug companies pay for the FDA's review of their products, several experts said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-fires-most-negotiators-pharma-user-fee-talks-sources-say-2025-04-17/

 

[Walt]

This is just plain pathetic.

 

[Hume]

This is just plain pathetic.

Please put poison in my food. Buyer beware.