Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices | Trump administration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce arrived at the Food and Drug Administration this week, as the employees who were recently were launched who are recently reference to the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products.
Test staff across the Food and Drug Administration received notifications on Saturday evening that their jobs were eliminated, according to three employees from the FDA (FDA) who spoke to the Associated Press, provided that their identity was not disclosed because they were not allowed to speak publicly.
The total number of situations eliminated on Sunday was not, but it seems that the shooting focuses on employees at the agency centers for medical devices, medical devices and tobacco products – which include supervising electronic cigarettes. It was not clear whether the FDA employees who reviewed drugs were exempted.
Friday, the United States Ministry health Humanitarian services have announced plans to launch 5200 employees under monitored through their agencies, which include the national health institutes, FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The people who spoke with AP said, provided that his identity is not disclosed on Friday that the number of test employees that will be demobilized at the Disease Control Center will number about 1300. But from Sunday noon, about 700 people received notifications, according to three people who spoke on a condition Not to reveal their identity because they were not allowed to speak publicly. They said that none of the demobilization operations of the Centers for Disease Control did not affect the doctors and researchers who follow diseases in what is known as the epidemiological intelligence service.
Its headquarters is located in FDA in Maryland The suburbs outside Washington, DC, hires nearly 20,000 people. The newly -wounded goal of the right -wing minister of health was Robert Kennedy Junior, who last year accused the “War on Public Health” agency for not approved unproven treatments such as drug, stem cells and disorder therapy.
Kennedy also called for the disposal of thousands of chemicals and colors of American food. However, the discounts in the FDA (FDA) includes employees responsible for reviewing the safety of new food additions and components, according to FDA employees (FDA) is familiar with fire.
A HHS spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday afternoon.
Nearly half of the FDA budget worth $ 6.9 billion of fees paid by the agency’s companies, including drug and medical hardware, allows the agency to employ additional scientists to review the products quickly. Eliminating these positions will not reduce government spending.
A former FDA official (FDA) said that cutting the last employees may have counterproductive results, eliminating employees who tend to be younger and have more modern technical skills. The FDA’s workforce tends towards the older workers who spent two or two contracts in the agency, and the Government Accountability Office in 2022 indicated that the Food and Drug Administration “historically faces challenges in employing and keeping” because of better funds in the private sector.
“You want to bring new blood.” “You want people who have new ideas, greater enthusiasm and latest technology.”
Mitch Zeler, director of the Food and Drug Administration former Tobacco, said the shooting is a way to “thwart and undermine the spirit of the federal workforce.”
Ziller said: “The common influence of what they are trying to do is destroy the ability to use and preserve talents.”
The Inspection Force in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been particularly strained in recent years after a wave of departure during the Covid-19 pandemic, and many of the current agency inspectors are modern tenants. It was not immediately clear whether these employees were exempted.
FDA inspectors are responsible for overseeing thousands of foods, drugs, tobacco and medical facilities all over the world, although AP reported last year that the agency faced an accumulation of about 2000 unexpected drug facilities that have not been visited since before the epidemic.
The agency’s inspection force has also been criticized for not moving faster to capture recent problems that involve infant formula, children’s food and higher.
