Two former FDA leaders went to social media to say that the agency as we no longer exists.
Robert Califf, who left his position as Commissioner for Food and Drug Administration earlier this year, wrote on LinkedIn that the office is ‘ready’. His statement came when the first shooting wave at the desk came in force. Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Supervising the FDA and dismisses 3,500 people from the office.
Some of the dismissals influence the activities of food safety, such as the inspection of food and food facilities, the research into outbreaks of diseases transferred by food and research into chemicals that have been added to food. Many people in communication and freedom of information and law positions are also fired, so that the ability of the FDA to communicate with the public are questioned and seem to be contrary to Kennedys promising to promote ‘radical transparency’.
“The FDA as we have known is completed, with most leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety that is no longer used,” Califf wrote on LinkedIn and said that he “is overwhelmed with messages about the dismissals.”
“I believe that history will see this a big mistake. I will be happy if I have been proven that it is wrong, but even then there is no good reason to treat people in this way.
“It will be interesting to hear from the new leadership how they intend to put ‘Humpty Dumpty’ back together.”
Another former FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, also said that the fired problems will cause. He said on X that the FDA was once known to stay behind with its European counterparts in medical progress, but in the last 25 years “we have built the FDA in the most efficient, progressive regulatory agency for medicines in the world and the US established as the worldwide center of biopharmaceutical innovation.”
“Nowadays, the cumulative barrage threatens to reduce those drug -company company that frustrating delays for American consumers, in particular the influence of rare diseases and areas of considerably unfulfilled medical needs.”
In general, Secretary Kennedy is planning to dismiss 10,000 of the employees in the Ministry of Health and Human Services as part of the reorganization announced last week. Kennedy said it would be a ‘painful period for HHS’.
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