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EU countries battling lack of resources for food controls

By Joe Whitworth on February 23, 2021

Many European countries are struggling to perform all their planned checks on businesses because of resource issues, according to a report.

The analysis covers national and EU Commission controls during 2017 and 2018 on food…
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Budget and staff cuts impacting enforcement in UK

By Joe Whitworth on October 31, 2020

Many of the UK’s regulatory agencies find themselves unable to enforce the rules due to budget cuts and declining staff numbers, according to new research.

The report examined losses in regulatory enforcement capacity across six…
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Food safety continues to be under the budget knife in Alaska

By News Desk on May 9, 2016

Alaska’s food safety budgets are taking more cuts as the state tries to close a $4 billion budget deficit caused by low oil prices. Another proposed cut of $268,000 is going to mean fewer restaurant…
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Mississippi restaurant inspectors working from homes, cars

By News Desk on May 4, 2016

Mississippi restaurants will be inspected less often as inspectors are being told to work from home now that their offices have been closed by a financially strapped Mississippi Department of Health. Cuts in restaurant inspection…
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Survey: Staff Cuts Still Plague State and Local Food Safety Agencies

By News Desk on June 18, 2015

If you thought the nation’s slow economic recovery would be enough to reverse job losses at state and local health districts overseeing food safety, you would be wrong. In a beefed-up version of its annual…
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Former CDC Directors Urge Adequate Funding for Public Health

By News Desk on November 30, 2012

Several former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took to Politico this week to remind beltway insiders that the work CDC does is “a matter of life and death,” arguing for the…
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OMB Report Asks Congress to Avoid Sequestration

By Helena Bottemiller on September 17, 2012

The sequestration slated to take effect at the first of the year is “bad policy,” and Congress should avoid it by taking action on deficit reduction, says a recent analysis by the White House Office…
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Curtailed Funds Continue to Hurt Local Public Health

By Mary Rothschild on May 24, 2012

Since 2008, local public health departments in the United States have lost nearly 40,000 employees, and the situation continues to deteriorate, according to the most recent survey, conducted in January and February, by the National…

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A Budget Cut Only the Produce Industry Could Love

By Michele Simon on February 24, 2012

You’ve probably never heard of the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) but if you eat fresh produce, you should, because it’s currently on President Obama’s budgetary chopping block. The MDP is a small ($5 million annually)…

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The Cost of Cutting Food Safety

By Steve Suppan on February 6, 2012

“There’s no money for . . .” well you name it. At a time when all manner of government services are being cut, trillions in bailouts to the financial services industry aside, why should food…

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