Efforts to support testing for some efforts of food and drug administration Outbreak of bird flu running Due to have been interrupted Step in the agencySeveral officials on Thursday to CBS News, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior stated in the latest result of the country’s federal health agencies.
In an example, a employed FDA practice with a network of veterinary testing laboratories across the country to ensure that they are able to detect the virus in milk, due to the abolition of the agency’s food security laboratory in Illinois, said two federal health officials.
Authorities planned to practice for 40 laboratories in FDA-backed veterinary laboratory checks and response networks as well as additional government-supported and private laboratories, using various methods for testing the virus.
An email sent to members of the laboratory network received by CBS News stated, “The FDA’s significant deduction in the FDA’s Human Food Program, including a major quality assurance officer in the Human Food Program, has made an immediate and significant and significant impact on the Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network.”
The news of disintegration in FDA practice was first reported by Reuters.
Email read, “This effort would be important to ensure confidence in food security and laboratory methods for animal health.”
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An official said that labs are testing milk to detect viruses in sick cattle and also for food security purposes.
Department has stopped Some 10,000 labor cost-coting task force under a scheme prepared by the Department of Government Efficiency of Kennedy and White House. The FDA lost about 3,500 full -time employees due to pruning, including employees supporting the agency. Food and drug safety inspector,
A HHS official said in a statement, “This overhaul is about resumption of HHS with its main mission: to prevent the epidemic of chronic disease and make the US healthy again. Despite spending $ 1.9 trillion at the annual cost, Americans are getting sick every year, and we have to shift the course.”
The official said HHS trimmed “deducts focused personnel in fruitless or unnecessary administrative positions.”
The statement said, “HHS also reduced its regional footprint by closing offices in Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco and Seattle, going out of the highest cost cities.”
Other federal laboratories have been reduced due to Kennedy’s cuts, including American disease control and prevention laboratories check STD and Hepatitis outbreak,
Another disrupted bird flu was attempted at FDA’s San Francisco-region Food Safety Testing Laboratory, said by two officials.
Officials said that this laboratory is responsible for food security testing for both humans and animals. An official stated that the lab bird was established to start a pet food test for the bird flu, as part of the regulatory response to the outbreak of the agency’s regulatory response.
Now the lab has been closed, employees have also been completely abolished as part of Kennedy’s cut on Tuesday. It is not clear whether the remaining lab of the agency will be able to fill the difference.
Many multi -layered Bird flu is missed by pet food for contamination Recent months have been announced by health officials, when cats and other animals were ill. The virus has been particularly fatal for pet cats.
In the last days of the Biden administration, the FDA veterinary center asked the pet food manufacturers to take additional steps to take additional steps to take their products free from the virus.
Through the Center, the FDA has inspected the drugs and food protection given to animals including pets.
