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As RFK Crusades to ‘Make America Healthy,’ FDA Suspends Milk Quality Tests
If your next glass of milk makes you puke, feel free to blame Kennedy.
- Reuters reports that, under Kennedy, the Food and Drug Administration has announced it will suspend a quality control program that tests milk and other dairy products. The outlet cites emails from the FDA’s Division of Dairy Safety to report that the shuttered program, which involves proficiency testing for grade “A” raw milk and other dairy products, will no longer operate. Proficiency testing ensures that America’s network of food safety labs operates consistently with federal standards. Milk products have (historically) needed to comply with federal requirements to be considered Grade “A.”
- The suspension of the program comes as workforce cuts batter the agency’s food safety and nutrition division, Reuters notes. The FDA’s Moffett Center Proficiency Testing Laboratory, which is responsible for overseeing the testing in question, “is no longer able to provide laboratory support for proficiency testing and data analysis,” an email viewed by the news outlet reads.

• The cuts come as other critical food testing is also being suspended. Last week, it was reported that the FDA was gutting its food safety testing operations. The agency said it would end virtually all routine food safety inspections, which are designed to ensure that the food that Americans eat is free from harmful pesticides and other contaminants.