housing market. a lot of other things would be affected, too. let s start with food safety for example. that s right. when it comes to food safety, we re talking about the usda, also talking about the fda. when it comes to the usda, they will continue meat inspections but the food and drug administration will not be able to support the majority of its food safety nutrition and cosmetics activities. it will have to stop routine inspections, but they still will continue to issue high-risk recalls. carol? what about the centers for disease control? well the cdc they say they will be limited in their efforts as well, although be limited in their efforts to investigate disease outbreaks like the flu, if the shutdown doesn t last very long, this won t have an impact on you and i, but if it does last for a long time, the agency will find itself in a position where they will not be able to track things like the flu and as we all know, flu