US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

Why I didn’t drink American milk before:
In Canada, the dairy industry is regulated by the Canadian Dairy Commission, which sets standards for milk production, including quality and safety. Canadian milk is often noted for its strict regulations regarding antibiotics and hormones, and the use of growth hormones like rBST is banned.
In the USA, milk quality is regulated at both federal and state levels, with the FDA setting standards for milk safety. However, practices can vary significantly from state to state, and some farmers may use growth hormones, which can be a concern for some consumers.
"US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts” Aaaand another step backwards...

This is going to fuck up the US export market something FIERCE. The US is actually one of the largest food exporters in the world, but without proper inspection and safety checks, no country with half a brain cell is going to want to import potentially contaminated food. Whenever something slips through the cracks and some people die or get hurt from food poisoning it is always a major scandal, even if the number of people affected are in the single or double digits.
This is the type of shit that will bring the US back to the 19th century when food adulteration was rampant. Except now despite overproducing food on an imaginable scale, they will STILL try to adulterate food with bullshit.
- Other countries having food standards was one of Trump’s tariff complaints

Simple solution, buy a cow and a testing lab! (I'm glad I'm lactose intolerant right about now.)

Even if you were going to do this, why would you tell everyone you're doing it?
Man it really sucks living in this shithole country run by a pack of morons.
- I hope my state secedes. The sooner blue states cut themselves loose, the better.

The fucking fuck. Are we supposed to import our god damn food now so it's safe to eat?
- Time to get on the bandwagon of ultra-pasteurized milk or re-boil your milk at home
  
  "Ultra pasteurized" are just words on a carton unless there's someone verifying it.
  
  I have terrible news for you. At least in my part of America, the only milk you can buy is ultra high pasteurized.
  Of course, that's what they've been doing until now. Let's see what happens without the FDA on it.
  
  In Florida up to 30% of the volume of milk can be pus (there's lots of puss coming out of these abused girl's hits due to infections on wounds caused by the machines), so enjoy drinking your boiled pus drink
- Yes, and pay the import tariff. I'm sure you can afford it since taxes are so low.
- That’ll be $276.43, and your card is automatically charged.
  Thank you, Come again!
  No returns.
- Nah, you dont need to steal milk from babies in another country either, weirdo. Just stop buying milk.
  
  This isn't the only thing they're stopping testing on.

The article doesn’t make this clear but “proficiency testing” is a “testing the testers” activity that ensures that labs’ procedures are working. So milk testing done by labs will still be done but those labs won’t be tested until this is resolved. Yes, the activity being stopped is important but a short stall shouldn’t immediately accept food safety.
- Thank you for being a voice of reason so I don't have to go insane today.
  
  How long until I should go insane though? A month? Two weeks?
- From working with lab equipment, you'd be surprised how quickly results turn to unreliable slop if not consistently calibrated. Is that what you're saying is being skipped?
  The article really didn't do a good job of explaining. Would this be the equivalent of CAPP inspections where one lab will audit another?
  
  No, it’s making sure people still know how to do their jobs that will be paused. If you work in a lab you have to do regular periodic training and then be tested on your ability to execute to those standards. Those tests of the lab workers are being paused until they’re in the new location. This is actually pretty common.
- Now corporations can slide a few bucks to food safety testing labs and get past all these pesky regulations
  
  And testing companies can reduce prices and take on many more customers if they don't actually test anything.
- They still allow 30% pus (by volume) in the milk sold in my State. Thats the status quo you think is OK?

throw the fucking Russian cunts out ffs!

Guess it's time to stop consuming milk entirely, good job!

Can't wait to find out we're putting formaldehyde in our milk again.

Suddenly glad to be lactose intolerant
- Sounds like everyone is about to be.
  
  Everyone is supposed to be. Adult humans are lactose intolerant, naturally.
- Same here. I do, however, feel bad for those that aren't and enjoy the devil's moo juice.

Lactose intolerance finally pays off

So much "efficiency".
Once again, when the brainless howler monkeys like Failin' Palin were talking about "death panels", it was projection. ALWAYS projection.

Where's Al Capone when you need him?

Oh I'm sure this will end well...

An HHS spokesperson said the laboratory was already set to be decommissioned before the staff cuts and though proficiency testing would be paused during the transition to a new laboratory, dairy product testing will continue.
So NOT because of the cuts… but also WTF? Can we not continue enshitifying America?

Yay chunky bacteria laden milk here we come. Upton Sinclair eat your heart out.
- bovine tb, yum.
- Yes. Upton Sinclair reference. My man!

Fun fact: Up to 30% of the volume of milk can be pus in Florida (there's lots of puss coming out of these abused girl's tits due to infections on wounds caused by the machines).
So I dont know how you thought it was OK to be drinking milk before..

mmmmm.....Campylobacter

Meanwhile us vegans are having our schadenfreude tickled.
- Enjoy your E. coli tainted lettuce.
  
  Yeah, indeed. Even when we try to avoid a lot of the toxic output of the SAD, we get the "benefit" of the lack of regulation meaning that cow shit ends up on food.
  And that was BEFORE the asshats like donnie and his dogebags got their hands on things.
  
  Aww. I love you too!

dairy is horrifically cruel and incredibly destructive, it was always bad for us; and now it's even worse. alternatives exist, it's an easy change to make.
- The thing that got me to significantly reduce my dairy consumption was
  Being exposed to vegetable milk (first soy then almond) by my roommates
  Not keeping fresh milk in the apartment because it kept going bad
  Losing the ability to gracefully digest lactose
  I eat much less cow now because of cute internet cow videos.
  Anyways, I think if 5 people reduce their consumption by 30% that's more impactful than 1 person reducing their consumption by 100%. (Math caveat: assuming each person has the same baseline level of consumption. 5 vegans reducing their consumption by 30% won't do squat).
  
  i never liked soy, it has a wierd taste to it. i prefer unsweetened almond and coconut milk. but almonds might come from questionable sources too.
  
  that's great! keep going.
- Cow suckers don't want to hear it.
  
  even in supposedly progressive spaces, people just turn their heads and refuse to connect it. but I'll keep speaking up. <3
- I misread that as "it's easy to make."
  You're right. While its not so easy to make, its available at most stores, it lasts longer before it spoils, and its cheaper.
  There's a reason that psychopathic antagonists drink milk in movies. You'd have to be crazy to choose to buy milk from an animal
  
  I'm pretty sure I saw someone talking online (maybe here?) about how they make oat milk themselves because it's a lot cheaper and not too hard to make?

throw the fucking Russian cunts out ffs!