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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
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One month into the FDA’s new Human Foods Program, Deputy Commissioner Jim Jones will appear in a webinar by the Alliance for a Stronger FDA.
The FDA the country’s oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency, began its new chapter on Oct. 1. The new human foods program took effect after a
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Sodium is not a pathogen, but it, too, kills. Just ask the World Health Organization (WHO), which reports that two million of the eight million poor diet deaths can be blamed on high sodium intake. According to WHO, excess dietary sodium intake increases blood pressure and consequently increases the risk
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What needs to be done before the Human Foods Program (HFP) comes to life, which is now targeted for October 1this year? Well, for sure, there’s some recruiting to do because Jim Jones, who joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in September 2023 as the agency’s first Deputy Commissioner
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Consumer Reports and the National Association of Food and Drug Officials applaud the approval of the FDA’s reorganization plan, saying the move will help ensure the nation’s food supply is safe.
“Consumers depend on the FDA to be effectively organized and governed to ensure our food is safe,” Brian Ronholm
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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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The Food and Drug Administration is requesting 7.4 percent more for its budget for fiscal year 2025 than it received for the current year, which began on Oct. 1, 2023, and runs through Sept. 30 this year.
The FDA’s request is part of President Biden’s proposed $7.3 trillion budget announced
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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.
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
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As 2024 unfolds, there are ongoing stories that will continue to take shape, including one that impacts everyone’s daily life in the United States.
The reorganization of the Food and Drug Administration’s human foods program began in 2023 with the appointment of Jim Jones to be the
Continue Reading 2024 food safety is in the hands of the government, industry, and the consumer