US food safety agency stops pretending it tests bacon for carcinogens

The US Food Safety and Inspection Service is removing old rules that said it tested pumped bacon for nitrosamines. The agency stopped doing these tests in 1998, but the rules were still on the books.

For 26 years, the agency's official rules claimed it was performing a safety check it had already abandoned. This change simply updates the regulations to match reality. It removes a paper requirement that had no real-world effect on food safety or inspection practices.