The partial government shutdown has left America’s food industry in a pickle — as the Food and Drug Administration has been forced to suspend routine inspections of food-processing facilities.

With the shutdown now in its 19th day, more than 50 FDA inspections of high-risk facilities — which handle items like soft cheese and seafood — have been nixed so far, the Washington Post reported.

It’s the rotten result of hundreds of FDA inspectors having been furloughed.

The inspectors conduct about 160 routine food inspections per week and a third of those are of high-risk processing facilities, said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

He said he’s working to bring back inspectors as early as next week to restart inspections of the high-risk facilities.

“We are doing what we can to mitigate any risk to consumers through the shutdown,” Gottlieb said.

Gottlieb is relying on new legal guidance that he might be able bring back around 150 furloughed workers to conduct the inspections.

The FDA oversees 80 percent of the food supply in the US.

Its inspectors are among more than 800,000 federal employees affected by the shutdown — the result of an impasse between President Trump and congressional Democrats over funding for the US-Mexico border wall.

Advocates blasted the FDA cutbacks, saying they put the public at risk.

“Regular inspections, which help stop foodborne illness before people get sick, are vital,” said Sarah Sorscher, deputy director of regulatory affairs of the nonprofit advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Foodborne illnesses sicken 48 million people each year and kill 3,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.