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The head of the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly claimed in recent interviews that no scientists have been laid off at his agency, but one of the scientists in a food safety lab shuttered ...
The recent termination of employees by the FDA at the Food Emergency Response Network may jeopardize America's food supply.
Facing staffing cuts and mounting scrutiny, the FDA is planning to further offload food inspections to states, arguing that ...
The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource ...
Every year, an estimated 128,000 Americans are hospitalized from foodborne illnesses. The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring a safe food supply for Americans. But cuts at the FDA ...
By Siobhan DeLancey, RVT, MPH This past week, I concluded my 21-year career with the FDA. A communicator by trade, I spent the majority of ...
The FDA has suspended ... in protecting their own safety from foodborne illnesses. Federal health officials estimate that nearly 48 million people are sickened by food contaminated with harmful ...
The network’s exclusive story says lower-priority inspections may be cut; the agency has been doing some of this for years.
According to several officials who have chosen to remain anonymous, the FDA is allegedly planning to end its routine food safety inspections and shift that responsibility to state and local ...
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Despite efforts to keep our nation's food supply safe, an estimated 3,000 people die each year, and 48 million are sickened, from food-borne Illnesses. Correspondent David Pogue looks at the ...