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FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Around 170 staff were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations this week as part of wider cuts at U.S. health agencies.
The impact of mass layoffs at HHS: What does it mean for new drugs, food safety?
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.
Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS; sweeping cuts extend to CDC, NIH, FDA: Recap
Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention ...
Trump administration starts mass layoffs at health agencies
The cuts are part of a plan by President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink staffing levels in federal ...
FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course on its requirement for all staffers to report to the office ...
Maxwell Frost Asks Former FDA Commissioner How Mass Layoffs Will Impact Food Inspections
During a House Oversight Committee hearing prior to the congressional recess, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) questioned Dr. David ...
Mass layoffs begin at HHS, some employees turned away after showing up to work
Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS ...
Trump layoffs begin to erode FDA drug review system
The firings this week also include all staff responsible for managing records – such as new product applications – at FDA ...
The New York Times19d
F.D.A. Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
Kennedy Jr. announced wide-ranging cutbacks at federal health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration ... of the far-reaching effects of the layoffs that would ultimately reduce ...
North Country Public Radio12d
How FDA layoffs may impact food safety
Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration are expected to reduce the FDA’s workforce by 20%. Susan Mayne, former director ...
Seattle Times18d
FDA layoffs could raise drug costs and erode food safety
including the Food and Drug Administration, that would eliminate duplicative services and paper pushers. But in interviews with more than a dozen current and former FDA staff members, a different ...
The Telegraph11d
FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, allowing some of its most prized staffers to work remotely amid worries that ...