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FDA Halts Food Safety Inspections

After sweeping layoffs, FDA's new plan revealed. Could it shake up food and drug safety inspections?

After firing several employees, FDA is planning to hire contractors in place of fired staff. The departed staffers include people who booked complex international trips to remote Indian pharmaceutical plants,

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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 with DOGE pink slips.

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FDA Cuts Lab Quality Control Program, May End Routine Food Safety Inspections

Kennedy Jr.’s massive round of job cuts last month continues as multiple sources told CBS News the Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans to end routine food safety inspections. The plans, if enacted,

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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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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 ...

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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 ... most prized staffers to work remotely amid worries that recent layoffs and resignations could jeopardize basic functions, like ...

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On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts

The spending cut is across all divisions of HHS – which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration ... health ...

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Trump administration starts mass layoffs at health agencies

The cuts are part of a plan by President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink staffing levels in federal agencies.

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FDA layoffs could raise drug costs and erode food safety

including the Food and Drug Administration, that would eliminate duplicative services and paper pushers. But in interviews with more than a dozen current and former FDA staff members, a ...

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Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies

The notices came just days after President Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies.

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