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Top leaders at FDA marketing overseer resign, potentially teeing up RFK Jr.’s promised drug ad ban: report
The two highest-ranking leaders within the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) have stepped down, according to ...
F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs
After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts and ...
Food Safety Was Slipping in the U.S. Then Came Mass Layoffs
Boar's Head deli meats recall notice at a deli counter in a Queens, New York grocery store.Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal ...
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FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Senior Food and Drug Administration leaders are planning for cutbacks ... from the elimination of the office's travel operations division, one official said. The team's work ranged from booking ...
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Country’s Top Vaccine Expert Quits and Flames RFK Jr.’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
The country’s top vaccine official dramatically quit his job ... the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and Jim Jones, head of the food division.
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. How to protect yourself from salmonella, listeria
Jim Jones, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's food division, resigned earlier in April after nearly 90 of his 2,000 staff were fired, according to the New York Times, citing the ...
New FDA commissioner agreed to oust top vaccine regulator after private swearing-in
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary signed off on the ouster of top vaccine official Peter Marks shortly ...
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Top FDA Vaccine Official Quits, Warns of Vaccine Misinformation
MONDAY, March 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A top vaccine official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stepping down, warning that vaccine misinformation is coloring the country’s ...