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Dear Dr. Califf, FDA Commissioner
February 6, 2023

As a broad coalition of FDA stakeholders, including industry and consumer groups and state food regulators, we appreciate the attention you have given to the problems in FDA’s Foods Program, which were highlighted in the Reagan-Udall Foundation (RUF) report in December.

Continue Reading Coalition has many questions about how FDA Commissioner will protect consumers with new organizational chart

— OPINION —

How food safety is best organized in a country this big and this populous is the question we should be asking. Instead during the past confusing year, we’ve come to focus only on the internal organization of the Food and Drug Administration.

We now know the timeline

Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own

Editor’s note: Following is a letter sent by Consumer Reports and a coalition of concerned entities (see list below) regarding the leadership at the Food and Drug Administration in reference to the recent Reagan-Udall Foundation report on the agency.

TO:
Dr. Robert Califf Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration 10903 New

Continue Reading Consumer groups call on FDA Commissioner to restore teeth to agency’s leadership

After 60 days of waiting, a report on operations at the FDA has arrived. It says the agency needs more money and an organizational chart that has a clear chain of command. Agency insiders, observers, and stakeholders have been calling for both for years.

The report is from the Reagan-Udall

Continue Reading Report on FDA offers little new advice: Repair chain of command, increase funds

Reactions to yesterday’s report on the inner workings of the food side of the Food And Drug Administration were cautiously optimistic. The commissioner of the agency was less than specific in his response to the report.

Commissioner Robert Califf commissioned the report from the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA in

Continue Reading FDA Commissioner, vested groups respond to report on inner workings of FDA food program

Editor’s note: This is a letter sent by a large coalition of consumer and industry groups to Jane Henney, the chair of the Independent Expert Panel – FDA Human Foods Program of the Reagan-Udall Foundation, that is charged with investigating operations at the Food and Drug Administration.

Dear Dr. Henney: 

Continue Reading Coalition asks review panel to consider food leader for upper echelon at FDA