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FDA will reduce food and drug inspections due to federal layoffs
FDA scales back routine inspections due to support staff layoffs, prioritizing high-risk cases amid government restructuring ...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
FDA Considers Scaling Back Inspections, Raising Questions About Food Safety
Facing staffing cuts and mounting scrutiny, the FDA is planning to further offload food inspections to states, arguing that ...
FDA May Shift Routine Food Inspections to States
The FDA already contracts with 43 states and Puerto Rico to do some routine inspections. States have handled about one-third ...
Is FDA Planning On Suspending Routine Food Safety Inspections?
Budgetary plans for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reportedly may end most routine food safety inspections. However, ...
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Shifting FDA food safety inspection to states has big challenges
After years of discussion, the Food and Drug Administration may shift the responsibility for routine food safety inspections ...
FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety ...
FDA is quietly drawing up plans to end routine food safety inspections, report claims
The report said FDA officials had already cited limited workforce capacity as the FDA’s “primary challenge to meeting ...
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FDA cuts might lead to fewer inspections
HAMPTON, VA. — Food plant inspections by the US Food and Drug Administration might be reduced as the result of deep staffing ...
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FDA RIFs Might Delay Your Review — Here Are Tips For Mitigating
Mounting concerns that FDA reviewers could start missing PDUFA deadlines have put many on edge. The moment calls for ...
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FDA seeks contractors to replace dozens of feds laid off two weeks ago
About one week after FDA announced a RIF, the agency began drafting a statement of work seeking contractors to do the same ...
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Texas outsourcer in Lilly's compounded tirzepatide lawsuit hit with FDA warning letter
A Houston-based compounding pharmacy that was recently roped into Eli Lilly’s fight against knockoff GLP-1s has landed in the FDA’s crosshairs for the second time in less than a year. | The FDA has ...