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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 ...
Targeting FDA user fees would leave agency gutted, experts say
Critics worry that the user fee program creates a conflict of interest between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies.
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.
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 Admin Cuts Key Staff Involved In FDA's Bird Flu Response Amid Widespread HHS Layoffs
The job cuts have impacted researchers, scientists, and senior officials, leading to the loss of key figures who shaped U.S.
F.D.A. 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 ...
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Trump Administration Postpones Deadline for Companies to Record and Trace Tainted Food
A law passed in 2011 required food ... event of contamination and a recall. The administration delayed the move, set to take effect next year, for 30 months. By Christina Jewett The Food and Drug ...