Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies like the CDC, support staff, specialists, and scientists were hit with DOGE pink slips.

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The FDA is reportedly considering offloading most routine food safety inspections to state agencies amid mass DOGE layoffs.

Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration are expected to reduce the FDA's workforce by 20%. Susan Mayne, former director ...

The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...

described the layoffs and their expected effects on the nation’s food, drugs and medical supplies. Weaker Monitors for Food Safety The agency eliminated scientists at several product safety labs, ...

In the month before the layoffs, the Trump Administration also cut two longstanding committees focused on food safety: the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and the ...

Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration are expected to reduce the FDA's workforce by 20%. How FDA layoffs may impact food safety Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration are expected to ...