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

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

E ven before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) eliminated 10,000 jobs on April 1, people who watched the ...

FDA suspends proficiency testing program due to HHS layoffs affecting food safety labs. Cuts disrupt pathogen testing for c ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of ...

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 ...