The anti-regulating approach of the Trump administration and cost-saving is moving risks to unravel a critical system of controls and balances that help to guarantee the safety of American food supply, told KFF Health News experts.
A E. Coli Outbreaks that took place at the end of last year – for which the study was completed in February – indicates how, with the FDA changes, more people can become ill with diseases transferred by food, because companies and growers are less regulatory supervision and fewer consequences for the sale of infected food products, according to interviews with consumer proponents, researchers and the VS and the US and the US and the US.
Moreover, the administration attracted a Proposed regulation Unpleasant Reduce the presence Van Salmonella in raw poultry, a plan that could have saved more than $ 13 million a year by preventing around 3,000 diseases. It also dissolves a unit of the Ministry of Justice that strives for civil and criminal actions against companies that sell polluted food and re -assign his lawyers, according to a former FDA officer, a public posted memo of the head of the Department’s Criminal Division, and a white paper from the Gibson Dunn law firm.
“It’s all about destruction and not efficiency,” said Siobhan Delancey, who worked in the Foods and Veterinary Medicine office for more than 20 years before he was fired in April. “We’re going to see the effects for years. It costs lives.”
Officials of the Ministry of Health and Human Services have not commented on the file for this article, but have maintained that food safety is a priority.
Staffing -cutbacks mean delays in publishing fatal outbreaks, said Susan Mayne, a deputy professor to the Yale School of Public Health that retired from the FDA in 2023. Delancey said that new requirements of the Trump administration for assessing the announcements of the agency that were revised the announcements of the agency, that it had weeks to get approval for alerts that would soon go out.
The November 2024 outbreak caused by E. Coli Bacteria in SLA diseases nearly 90 people and killed one person. But after the investigation was completed under the Trump administration, the FDA has once again controled information that the grower or processor identified. Said the FDA in his February internal summary That the grower was not mentioned because there was no product on the market.
The information is still important because it can prevent further cases, improving pressure growers to improve sanitary facilities and identify repeated perpetrators, said Bill Marler, a lawyer in Seattle who specializes in a lawsuit in food safety.
“The whole ‘make America again Healthy’, the focus on removing dyes from the food from breakfast cereals?” Said Chris George, from Avon, Indiana, whose son was admitted to the hospital in the outbreak. ‘What about we take E. Coli From our lettuce, so it doesn’t kill our children? “
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