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FDA head falsely claims no scientists laid off, as agency shutters food safety labs
The head of the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly claimed in recent interviews that no scientists have been laid ...
FDA suspends dairy quality testing amid federal workforce cuts. Is it safe to consume milk?
The testing of Grade A dairy products like pasteurized and raw milk, cheese, and yogurt are currently being paused by the FDA ...
The FDA suspend quality control testing program for dairy. How will it impact Louisiana?
After staff and funding cuts across the HHS, the FDA has suspended its quality control program for testing dairy products.
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FDA’s milk testing program pause is not cause for alarm, experts say
An FDA spokesperson confirmed to The Washington Post that the program is “currently paused” but said in an email that it will resume once transferred from its current home to another FDA ...
FDA says it will phase out food dyes
The change follows a new law passed in West Virginia that bans artificial food dyes in school meals by August 1st of this ...
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Suspends Milk Quality Testing Despite Avian Flu Concerns
Furthermore, bird flu outbreaks have reached the dairy industry, resulting in contaminated milk at best, and fatalities among ...
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New FDA Chief Martin Makary Says DOGE Cuts Haven’t Hit Science Staff
The new FDA chief reiterated his commitment to speeding up drug approval processes and run the agency by “gold standard ...
The FDA Is Pausing Bird Flu Milk Testing After More Than 20,000 HHS Job Cuts
The dairy safety program, which was created to monitor avian flu risks, has dried up as the agency shuts down labs and ...
FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of ...
US to phase out many synthetic food dyes, Kennedy and FDA head say
They cited concerns about a possible link between consumption of the dyes and health conditions like ADHD, obesity and ...