FDA bird flu testing efforts disrupted by RFK Jr.’s layoffs, officials say

Attempts to support some tests of food and drug administration Extravagant Bird Flu outbreak Has been disrupted due to ErectMultiple officials told CBS News on Thursday to cut CBS News at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In one example, the FDA practice designed with a network of veterinary testing labs across the country has been postponed to ensure that they have been able to detect the virus due to the eradication of the agency’s food security lab in Illinois, two federal health officials said.

Officials planned to practice for 40 laboratories across the FDA-backed Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network, which is using various methods for the virus for the virus.

“Unfortunately, the FDA’s Human Food Program Mftate Center has a significant and significant impact on the Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network, including a key qualitative assurance officer at the Mftate Center,” Read an email sent by members of CBS News Network on Thursday.

Reuters first reported the disruption in the FDA practice.

This attempt was important to “ensure confidence in food security and laboratory method for animal health” written in the email.

An official said the labs were examining both milk to detect the virus of sick cattle as well as both milk for food protection.

Division Closed Kennedy and White House’s Government Skills Spending Expenditure Cutting Task Force is about 10,000 workers under the plan. FDA lost about 3,500 full-time employees because of pruning with agencies supporting staff Food and Drug Protection InspectorThe

An HHS official said in a statement, “This overhall is re -recognizing HHS with its original mission: to stop the epidemic of chronic diseases and heal the United States. The Americans have become ill every year despite the annual expenditure of $ 1.5 trillion, and we must change the course,” a HHS official said.

This officer said that HHS trimmed “Focus staff cut off in unnecessary or unnecessary administrative terms.”

The statement said, “The maximum expenditure in HHS Boston, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco and Seattle has also reduced regional footwebs by moving out of shuttering offices.”

Other federal labs are involved in the investigation of disease control and prevention labs because of Kennedy’s cuts STD and Hepatitis outbreakThe

Another disrupted Bird Flu attempt at the FDA’s San Francisco-Aria Food Safety Testing Lab had two officials.

Officials said that this lab was responsible for food security tests for both humans and animals. An official said the lab was set up to start checking pet food for bird flu, as part of the agency’s regulatory response to the outbreak.

On Tuesday, the staff was completely eliminated as part of the Kennedy cuts, the lab is now closed. It is unclear whether the remaining labs of the agency will be able to fill the vacuum.

Several multist Birds recalls pet food for flu pollution Cats and other animals have been announced by the Health Authority in recent months after becoming ill. The virus has been especially deadly in pet cats.

In the last days of the Biden administration, the FDA Veterinary Center PET called for food manufacturers to take additional steps to ensure that their products were free from the virus.

Through the center, the FDA’s pets are monitored on the protection of drugs and foods given to animals.