Subject: Re: FDA Stops Testing Milk, Dairy Products
Me, too. I'm always aghast when people starting talking about "red tape". Mostly because people don't ask the question "why is that red tape here?".

Sure, sometimes it is obsolete. Makes no sense. Other times, it's a reason that may be invisible now because it made disappear whatever it was designed to prevent.

We aren't big milk drinkers. But we do use cheese on occasion. If there will be little or no oversight to the US dairy industry, we'll buy imported. Europe has better standards -in general- than we do anyway. We already buy Kerrygold butter (Ireland), or Kirkland (Costco - New Zealand).

For those who don't know, here's the story about why the FDA exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Actually, in some form, it existed as far back as 1906, but it's scope was extremely narrow, and penalties were tiny. Elixir sulfanilamide changed that. Almost 100 years later, people wonder why it is there. But we'd miss is -eventually catastrophically- if it wasn't.