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    Default Enjoy your dinner -- Trump shutdown = no one inspecting your food

    FDA says most food inspections halted amid shutdown


    Source: The Hill

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has suspended all routine domestic food facility inspections amid the partial government shutdown.

    The agency, which oversees the majority of the country's food supply, typically conducts roughly 160 routine inspections per week, the Post reported.

    Investigators during these routine checks typically look for unclean conditions, bug infestations and harmful contaminations.

    “We are doing what we can to mitigate any risk to consumers through the shutdown,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.



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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    FDA says most food inspections halted amid shutdown


    Source: The Hill

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has suspended all routine domestic food facility inspections amid the partial government shutdown.

    The agency, which oversees the majority of the country's food supply, typically conducts roughly 160 routine inspections per week, the Post reported.

    Investigators during these routine checks typically look for unclean conditions, bug infestations and harmful contaminations.

    “We are doing what we can to mitigate any risk to consumers through the shutdown,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.



    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-amid-shutdown
    That's OK. I grow most of my own and hunt for the meat. Better luck next time trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

    Since you seem so worried, does that mean you're going on a hunger strike? Please do. While you at it, stop drinking any fluids.

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    160 routine inspections per week
    That's got to be about 0.000000000001% of the food processing that occurs.

    Corporations police themselves, because if they don't they will be out of business and bankrupt. Capitalism works.

    Thanks for proving that, albeit unknowingly. LOL

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    I am with the teabaggers and libertarians on this one -- the mere existence of food inspectors are a symptom of socialism - a warning shot across the bow of our relentless descent into a Kenyan-Marxist dystopian hell hole.

    Everyone should be responsible for inspecting their own food, and buyer beware, It's really about personal responsibility, folks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    That's got to be about 0.000000000001% of the food processing that occurs.

    Corporations police themselves, because if they don't they will be out of business and bankrupt. Capitalism works.

    Thanks for proving that, albeit unknowingly. LOL
    Wonder if the OP will go on a hunger strike in protest?

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    Most large food processing companies use third part food safety auditors. Government or not, they do not want to trigger either a mass casualty event or a recall. Recalls are very bad for marketshare and branding.

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