Donald Trump Has Endangered The U.S. Baby Formula Supply

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​Donald Trump Has Endangered The U.S. Baby Formula Supply

     
​      I first read about it two days ago on a Facebook post.

      However I don't pay much attention to Facebook news, especially of the sensationalistic variety, unless it's referenced from a credible source.
        And then yesterday I found that same alarming news from a highly credible source:

      I then looked around the internet and found several more news articles on the subject of the risk to our food supply, most alarmingly infant formula, now that  Donald Trump, in support of Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, ​

... is cutting jobs and funds in the Food and Drug Administration's food safety division.
      Among the cuts is a critical food safety committee that addresses microbial hazards in the food supply, including the bacteria that can live in powdered baby formula.       
       Or rather, that food safety committee used to address those hazards, until the recent email the scientists on the committee received  stating, "Further work on your report and recommendations will be prohibited."
​​    Meanwhile Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,  supposed safe guardian of our country's food supply,

...has started a government initiative called "Operation Stork Speed" to remove what he believes are unhealthy additives and "toxins" in baby formula. Except that from now on the far greater danger to baby formula will not be additives or toxins but the presence of undetected bacteria.
      So R.F.K. Jr. is, in effect, making a great public ballyhoo over the ingredients in baby formula while ignoring the real and potentially deadly problem of the presence of dangerous bacteria.  
       All this is not to say that the rest of the American population will be any safer from food borne illness than formula-fed babies. The committee on meat and poultry inspection has also been dissolved along with the committee on microbial safety. And while in fact more food safety inspectors are at this moment needed in this country, Trump's F.D.A. budget cuts will mean even fewer inspectors.
     Furthermore, scientists in the F.D.A. have been barred from using their government credit cards which, according the New York Times article, has slowed their investigation of the listeria bacterium in certain foods and "stopped some testing of grocery items for hazardous bacteria and monitoring of shellfish and food packaging," and "funding loss could slow the important work of taking bad food out of stores."
​        And so it appears that an unsafe food supply and more food-borne illness is on the horizon for us all, thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. We should all be worried sick and mad as hell. Especially for the babies.

References
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/health/food-safety-trump-fda-cutbacks-deadly-outbreaks.html

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/03/food-safety-leaders-express-concerns-about-recent-cuts-in-fda-workforce/

https://www.foodandwine.com/trump-administration-eliminates-usda-food-safety-committees-11693025