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If you care about food safety, then Jim Jones matters to you. A year into his tenure as Deputy Commissioner for the Human Foods Program, Jones has infused the FDA food programs with a new sense of mission and new approaches to greater efficiency and transparency.
The
Continue Reading Transforming FDA-regulated food products: A webinar with Jim Jones
Congress is heating up to make some budget decisions just as temperatures in Washington, D.C., have turned hot. The Food and Drug Administration has requested $ 7.2 billion for the president’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 proposed budget.
Budget requests are for the period from Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30
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By Steven Grossman, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA
Consistent with the overall discretionary spending targets set forth in last year’s budget agreement, the President’s FY 25 budget request for FDA is substantially less than his FY 24 request. As a result, all of
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The Alliance for a Stronger FDA is hosting Center Directors and other FDA senior leaders to discuss their portion of the the president’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request (documents; analysis).
Our food-focused lineup includes Human Foods Program Deputy Commission Jim Jones, Center for Veterinary Medicine Director Tracey
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Until Food Safety News Managing Editor Coral Beach called me recently to talk about the relationship between the FDA’s budget and that of the entire federal government, it had been a while since I had considered the subject.
If I remember correctly, an old General Accounting Office (GAO) report said
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The reorganization of the Food and Drug Administration’s human foods programs was urgently needed and a long-time coming. The full plan still needs to go through review by Office of Management and Budget and then Congress.
Fortunately, the Department of Health and Human Services and FDA have authority to implement
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By Steven Grossman, executive director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA
On Sept. 29, 2023, I fell asleep — certain that the government would shutdown at midnight the next day. The threat was real. The Alliance for a Stronger FDA had already circulated a shutdown toolkit
Continue Reading FDA shutdown looms; webinar today explores different FDA scenarios
The FDA’s largest reorganization in history, involving about 8,000 employees, is far more than just “moving some boxes around.” The proposed changes and updates to an FDA-wide reorganization plan have been out for external reviews and clearances since Dec. 13, 2023, and implementation should occur sometime during 2024.
A “Unified
Continue Reading FDA reorganization is out for review, but impact later in 2024 could be huge
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By Steven Grossman, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA.
What started as a crisis over the safety and supply of infant formula became a wide-ranging review of FDA’s food programs by the Reagan-Udall Foundation. In turn, those led to the creation of a new
Continue Reading Major FDA reorganization will heavily impact human foods program
An Alliance for a Stronger FDA webinar on Monday, Nov. 13, will feature Jim Jones, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. Alison Bodor of the American Frozen Foods Institute, and Thomas Gremillion of the Consumer Federation of America, will moderate.
Jones took command of the FDA Human Foods Program on
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