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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of ...
FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of ...
Hope, caution for Washington state patients 'first in line' for new schizophrenia drug
Cobenfy was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in fall 2024 and represents the first novel approach in decades to ...
FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...
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FDA layoffs could raise drug costs and erode food safety
Kennedy Jr. announced wide-ranging cutbacks at federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration ... The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News. Rather, we focus on ...
Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting ‘misinformation and lies’
The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official ...
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FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as part of sweeping cuts to the federal health workforce on Tuesday, the latest in a series ...
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FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course on its requirement for all staffers to report to the office WASHINGTON -- Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back ...
Trump signs directive on lowering drug prices even as he seeks tariffs on pharmaceuticals
In his first major action on health care costs this term, President Donald Trump issued a multi-part executive order on ...