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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.
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about the FDA closing generic drug office, its U-turn on remote work, and more
A FDA generic drug office was eliminated — and the implications will be felt not only by drugmakers, but consumers ...
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FDA layoffs described as “devastating” as mass cuts ensue across government agencies
A leading food and health advisory agency has described the mass layoffs at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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How FDA layoffs may impact food safety
Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration are expected to reduce the FDA's workforce by 20%. Here & Now 's Scott Tong talks ...
Food Safety Was Slipping in the U.S. Then Came Mass Layoffs
Boar's Head deli meats recall notice at a deli counter in a Queens, New York grocery store.Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal ...
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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary gets off to a bruising start as agency is wracked by layoffs
A national leader in medicine with impeccable credentials, Dr. Makary is imminently qualified to lead the FDA at this ...
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 ...
‘FDA as we’ve known it is finished’: Former commissioner
Commissioner Robert Califf said the federal agency that he’s known for years “is finished” after mass layoffs began Tuesday ...
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 ...