– OPINION –
If I were a senator who would be a confirmation hearing for Dr. Marty Makary would carry out the candidate to be the next Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, would be my first question to him: ‘Who will actually lead this agency? U, Dr. Makary? Or Elon Musk and his inexplicable team of Technocrats? ‘
The legal dubious ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ A flame thrower taken to the personnel directory At the FDA, the staff is briefly rejected who is freshly hired to tackle the safety of the baby formula, to respond to the outbreak of food about the food and the safety of chemicals used in our food, among other things.
If Makary is confirmed, task number one will be to stop the bleeding of staff with the scientific expertise to keep our food and drugs safe, and to withstand an additional austerity round, the administration agencies have asked to propose to propose later this month.
These random and reckless cuts will not make Americans healthier. Instead, they will increase the chance of outbreaks of diseases transferred by food and increasing the time that is required for the FDA to resolve them. Moreover, if Dr. Makary, just like Secretary Kennedy, is concerned about the safety of food additives and dyes, will continue with random, radical Doge cuts more difficult for the desk to tackle them.
As Dr. Makary hopes to help Americans avoid chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disorders, he could start continuing the work of the agency on food labeling at the front and in reducing sodium in food supply. That will cost staff. If he wants to ensure that chemicals are safe in our food, he will close the generally recognized as a safe Maas in the FDA and promote the post-market assessment initiative of the FDA. And he would leave the new rule of the FDA on Laboratory-developed tests intact.
Finally, as Dr. Makary Americans wants to help avoid transferable diseases, he should not succumb to the extreme, anti-vaccination ideology that percoles from elsewhere in administration. It is bad enough to have an outbreak of measles in the year 2025. We should not worry about a possible polio outbreak in the year 2026, or a pertussis outbreak in 2027.
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