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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 08:29 AM Oct 2013

"During the shutdown, the FDA will have to cease most of its food-safety operations ..."

What could possibly go wrong? We don't need to monitor imported food when the "free hand of the market" is doing it for us.


Reince's Ignorance

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/10/reinces-ignorance.html



It would be really nice if we could continue monitoring food safety in the US:

During the shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration will have to cease most of its food-safety operations. That includes "routine establishment inspections, some compliance and enforcement activities, monitoring of imports, notification programs (e.g., food contact substances, infant formula), and the majority of the laboratory research necessary to inform public health decision-making."


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"During the shutdown, the FDA will have to cease most of its food-safety operations ..." (Original Post) Scuba Oct 2013 OP
"Eat shit and die, you Americans you. Smirk. Sneer. Smirk." - RepubliBaggers (R) Berlum Oct 2013 #1
Yes. BumRushDaShow Oct 2013 #2
USDA is also out of the loop now Berlum Oct 2013 #3

BumRushDaShow

(127,255 posts)
2. Yes.
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 08:37 AM
Oct 2013

And there are a trickle of folks left to monitor all the import entries coming into the country (to release or detain) while the rest sit home. Generally the only ones "working" are those funded by all the User Fees (PDUFA, GDUFA, MDUFA, FSMA, etc) that now make up half of the agency's budget.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
3. USDA is also out of the loop now
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 11:32 AM
Oct 2013

Thanks a putrid pantload, you irresponsible, ill-willed, FAIL-filled RepubliWankers Against America (R).

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