FDA layoffs could raise drug costs and erode food safety
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who ...
Trump layoffs begin to erode FDA drug review system
By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Maggie Fick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration's mass firings at the U ...
FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Senior Food and Drug Administration leaders are planning for cutbacks to the number of routine food and drug inspections ...
FDA is looking for some laid-off employees to temporarily keep working
But just hours after employees were shown the door, Barclay Butler, the agency’s new chief operating officer, asked top FDA ...
FDA bird flu testing efforts disrupted by RFK Jr.'s layoffs, officials say
Multiple FDA labs were cut amid Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs this week.
Trump administration cuts FDA staff handling bird flu outbreaks
Federal regulators were responsible for recalling pet food contaminated with bird flu, which killed household cats.
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FDA employees face abrupt layoffs amid federal job cuts, sparking confusion and inefficiency
Thousands of employees at the Food and Drug Administration learned by email that they were being let go, but then some were called back to the office.
Former FDA head Califf: Trump administration actions are an effort 'to destroy the FDA'
The FDA saw a significant reduction in force Tuesday, and former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the industry is going to ...
FDA suspends program to improve bird flu testing due to staff cuts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending efforts to improve its bird flu testing of milk, cheese and pet food due to massive staff cuts at the agency, according to an email seen by Reuters ...
RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA's public records teams, despite "transparency" promises
It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.
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FDA’s LDT Final Rule Rejected by Federal District Court in Texas
As Wilson Sonsini previously reported,1 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been preparing the industry to comply with the 2024 LDT ...
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FDA cuts may mean even less oversight of pet food
More than 102 million U.S. households own a dog or a cat, and thousands more have fish, birds, or reptiles. The resulting pet ...