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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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Makary says FDA will remove pharma representatives from advisory panels
Makary announced the change during his first interview as commissioner. He spent much of the conversation with Megyn Kelly ...
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 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 ...
Reps. Pressley, Brown push FDA to finalize a bill to ban harmful chemical in hair relaxers
U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, and Nydia Velásquez, D-N.Y., are urging the Food and Drug ...
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Mass layoffs begin at HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA
Lines of HHS employees arrived at work Tuesday to see if they still had a job, by checking if their badges still worked.
Novartis, FDA Battle Over Generic Drug Labeling in DC Circuit
A three-judge panel wrestled Thursday with Novartis AG’s challenge against the FDA over its approval of a generic version of ...
US FDA limits industry employees from roles in its advisory committees
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary announced on Thursday a policy to limit employees of companies ...
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FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
An internal email obtained by The Associated Press states that FDA leadership are “allowing review staff and supervisors to resume telework” at least two days a week. The policy shift was ...
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Ex-FDA Official Is Worried About the FDA’s New “Anti-Vaccine Tone”
Peter Marks speaks during a Senate hearing in 2021 in Washington, DC. Senior Correspondent Dr ... He served in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 13 years, most of them as director ...