Top FDA food safety official's resignation letter warns firings will backfire on RFK Jr.
James Jones resigned as FDA deputy commissioner and said the Trump administration's "indiscriminate" job cuts show "disdain for the very people necessary to implement your agenda." ...
F.D.A. Firings Decimated Teams Reviewing A.I. and Food Safety
Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though ...
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FDA deputy commissioner’s abrupt retirement and massive agency layoffs undercut MAHA slogan, stakeholders warn
FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jone’s abrupt resignation on Monday following the wholesale termination of ...
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Firing of thousands of health agency employees will undermine food safety
The cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services today make a mockery of the “Make America Healthy Again” slogan by ...
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12 Food Associations and Advocacy Groups Question the Firings at FDA
Groups often at odds – such as Consumer Brands Assn. and Center for Science in the Public Interest – unite to protest Trump’s 89 terminations at the food safety agency.
Head of FDA's food division resigns after dozens of terminations at the agency: report
The head of the FDA's food division, Jim Jones, resigned on Monday following layoffs within the division that he argues were ...
What new DOGE firings at the FDA could mean for food safety and medical devices
The firings appeared to focus on employees in the agency’s centers for food, medical devices, and tobacco products. The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached ...
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Jim Jones, FDA’s Top Food Official, Resigns After Trump Fires 89 Agency Employees
It has been increasingly clear … the Trump administration’s disdain for the very people necessary to implement your agenda,’ ...
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Food safety outlook
KANSAS CITY — Determined to continue to reduce the incidence of foodborne illnesses, regulatory agencies such as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...