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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.
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FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
WASHINGTON >> The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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FDA to phase out some animal testing requirements, possibly replace them with AI models
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it plans to phase out animal testing requirements for biological products and drugs, instead moving toward alternative testing models such ...
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FDA Issues Warning About Counterfeit Ozempic
Novo Nordisk notified the Food and Drug Administration about several hundred units of fake semaglutide 1.0 mg in the US drug ...
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 ...