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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.
The FDA Buried an E. Coli Outbreak. Now It’s Scaling Back Food Safety
The FDA is reportedly considering offloading most routine food safety inspections to state agencies amid mass DOGE layoffs.
FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety ...
FDA Guts Food Safety Testing in Latest Move to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
The changes to FERN are a direct result of staffing cuts at the HHS, which oversees agencies like the FDA and CDC. Kennedy is ...
FDA suspends food safety quality checks. How to protect yourself from salmonella, listeria
According to Reuters, the FDA is suspending a quality control program, for food testing labs. Here are the steps you should take to protect yourself.
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 ...
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FDA cuts outlined in draft HHS budget
The leaked budget draft, if approved by Congress, would reduce the FDA’s budget authority, indicating more disruption could ...
Drug Development Is Slowing Down After Cuts at the FDA
The agency is missing deadlines and not responding to biotech companies, forcing some to push back clinical trials.
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Five priorities to remake the FDA in a time of deep uncertainty
Two former FDA leaders look at Commissioner Marty Makary’s early stumbles — and lay out a list of priorities to protect both ...
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 ...
FDA Clears Neuralink Rival’s Brain Implant
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared a core component of a brain implant made by Precision Neuroscience, a ...
Celery Recalled Over Listeria Concerns, FDA Reports
It may be time to double-check your produce drawer because another food recall has consumers on high alert. The U.S. Food and ...