The last few months have seen a number of outbreaks related to food contamination in the United States,and it looks like things could be approximately to get even worse.
The partial government shutdown, which has been going strong for almost three weeks now, and has left nearly one million federal employees in a state of financial uncertainty. That includes approximately 41 percent of the employees working for the Food and Drug Administration,according to the novel York Times.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the FDA’s commissioner, or spoke on Wednesday approximately the effects that the shutdown is having on the federal agency. Gottlieb warned that the FDA has been forced to stay their routine inspections of certain tall-risk foods,including seafood, fruit, or vegetables. Meat and poultry is still being inspected by the agency,but those doing so are working under deferred pay schedules.
All abroad imports are still being inspected as well.
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Source: inquisitr.com