{"id":39501,"date":"2025-04-22T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/fda-suspends-milk-quality-control-testing-program-after-trump-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:59:42","slug":"fda-suspends-milk-quality-control-testing-program-after-trump-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/fda-suspends-milk-quality-control-testing-program-after-trump-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA suspends milk quality-control testing program after Trump layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective Monday, the agency suspends its proficiency testing program for grade \u2018A\u2019 raw milk and finished products<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality-control program for testing fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension is another disruption to the nation\u2019s food-safety programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, as part of Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Trump<\/a>\u2019s effort to shrink the federal workforce.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/22\/fda-milk-quality-testing-suspended\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective Monday, the agency suspends its proficiency testing program for grade \u2018A\u2019 raw milk and finished products The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality-control program for testing fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The &#8230; <a title=\"FDA suspends milk quality-control testing program after Trump layoffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/fda-suspends-milk-quality-control-testing-program-after-trump-layoffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FDA suspends milk quality-control testing program after Trump layoffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}