The two former FDA leaders have taken them to social media and said that there are no agencies we know about anymore.
Robert Caliph, who resigned from his post as Director of the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year, wrote on LinkedIn that the agency was “end.” His declaration came when the first wave of fire at the agency took effect. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversees the FDA and has fired 3,500 people from his agency.
Some of the shootings have affected food safety operations, such as testing food and food facilities, investigating the outbreak of foodborne diseases, and researching chemicals added to food. Many people in the Communication and Information Freedom Act position have also been fired, and it appears to violate Kennedy’s pledge to challenge the FDA’s ability to communicate with the public and promote “radical transparency.”
“The FDA we know knows that most leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety are no longer employed,” LinkedIn wrote, saying he is “overwhelmed by the message about shooting.”
“I believe history will make this a big mistake. I would be happy if it proves wrong, but there is still no good reason to treat people like this.
“It will be interesting to hear from the new leadership that they plan to revert the ‘Humpty Dumpty’ back to normal. ”
Another former FDA committee member, Scott Gottlieb, also said the layoffs would cause problems. He was known in X that the FDA once lags behind its European counterparts in medical advances, but for the past 25 years, he “built the FDA as the most efficient and advanced drug regulatory agency in the world, establishing the United States as the global center of biopharmaceutical innovation.”
“Today, that cumulative barrage of drug discovery companies threatens to quickly regain these annoying delays for American consumers.
Overall, Secretary Kennedy is set to fire 10,000 Department of Health and Human Services employees as announced this past week as part of a restructuring. Kennedy said it would be a “hard time for HHS.”
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