• NocturnalMorning
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    6 months ago

    The fucking fuck. Are we supposed to import our god damn food now so it’s safe to eat?

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      Time to get on the bandwagon of ultra-pasteurized milk or re-boil your milk at home

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        “Ultra pasteurized” are just words on a carton unless there’s someone verifying it.

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        I have terrible news for you. At least in my part of America, the only milk you can buy is ultra high pasteurized.

        Of course, that’s what they’ve been doing until now. Let’s see what happens without the FDA on it.

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          But now it’s not just milk and the legally allowed amount of blood, pus, urine, dirt, fecal matter, cleaning agents, and the things the FDA USDA found and did nothing about.
          Now it’s an unambiguous statement that unknown quantities of unknown substances in your food will not trigger enforcement actions! (Regardless of the regulating body)

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              Oh, you’re right - I recalled the article and just grabbed the first one that fit when I skimmed it.

              I think my point that this is a clear message that the regulators are unable to regulate right now is still valid, but I will update my previous comment for clarity.

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          6 months ago

          Dipshits like RFK jr want to experiment on everyone and make them “healthy again” by giving everyone raw milk.

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            I want regular pasteurized milk so I can make clotted cream. But I’d rather have ultra high pasteurized and not have to worry about shit like that.

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        In Florida up to 30% of the volume of milk can be pus (there’s lots of puss coming out of these abused girl’s tits due to infections on wounds caused by the machines), so enjoy drinking your boiled pus drink

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      That’ll be $276.43, and your card is automatically charged.

      Thank you, Come again!

      No returns.

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      6 months ago

      Nah, you dont need to steal milk from babies in another country either, weirdo. Just stop buying milk.

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    The article doesn’t make this clear but “proficiency testing” is a “testing the testers” activity that ensures that labs’ procedures are working. So milk testing done by labs will still be done but those labs won’t be tested until this is resolved. Yes, the activity being stopped is important but a short stall shouldn’t immediately accept food safety.

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      From working with lab equipment, you’d be surprised how quickly results turn to unreliable slop if not consistently calibrated. Is that what you’re saying is being skipped?

      The article really didn’t do a good job of explaining. Would this be the equivalent of CAPP inspections where one lab will audit another?

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        No, it’s making sure people still know how to do their jobs that will be paused. If you work in a lab you have to do regular periodic training and then be tested on your ability to execute to those standards. Those tests of the lab workers are being paused until they’re in the new location. This is actually pretty common.

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          That kind of expense is meant to ensure standardized practices, correct?

          Trump thinks measure once cut once is more efficient.

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            To some extent, but more so to ensure people actually absorbed the training.

            So if you train people on shitty practices, then they can pass their competency tests doing shitty things really well!

            The actual training (typically called SOPs - standard operating procedures / policies or some such thing) quality is generally what makes a bigger difference. Those are typically reviewed annually or on some timeline based on risk and volatility.

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      Now corporations can slide a few bucks to food safety testing labs and get past all these pesky regulations

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        And testing companies can reduce prices and take on many more customers if they don’t actually test anything.

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          And when people are upset about that system the labs can go and pay the big4 to be their testers and rubber stamp everything they do because the labs are now paying the salary of the people who are there to stop them.

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      They still allow 30% pus (by volume) in the milk sold in my State. Thats the status quo you think is OK?

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      Thank you for being a voice of reason so I don’t have to go insane today.

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    This is going to fuck up the US export market something FIERCE. The US is actually one of the largest food exporters in the world, but without proper inspection and safety checks, no country with half a brain cell is going to want to import potentially contaminated food. Whenever something slips through the cracks and some people die or get hurt from food poisoning it is always a major scandal, even if the number of people affected are in the single or double digits.

    This is the type of shit that will bring the US back to the 19th century when food adulteration was rampant. Except now despite overproducing food on an unimaginable scale, they will STILL try to adulterate food with bullshit.

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    Even if you were going to do this, why would you tell everyone you’re doing it?

    Man it really sucks living in this shithole country run by a pack of morons.

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    An HHS spokesperson said the laboratory was already set to be decommissioned before the staff cuts and though proficiency testing would be paused during the transition to a new laboratory, dairy product testing will continue.

    So NOT because of the cuts… but also WTF? Can we not continue enshitifying America?

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    So much “efficiency”.

    Once again, when the brainless howler monkeys like Failin’ Palin were talking about “death panels”, it was projection. ALWAYS projection.

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    Where’s Al Capone when you need him?