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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman once wrote; “Everything really important happens the morning after the morning after…”
In short, focus on what really changes, not what is said will change.
That is a good lesson for the White House and Congress to remember with the proposed
Continue Reading The FDA plan: The morning after the morning after
The FDA Commissioner says the reorganization of the food side of the agency is still a work in progress, but promises that by fall it will be ready to submit to authorization entities. He says it will have an “empowered” deputy commissioner for foods.
Commissioner Robert Califf has been under
Continue Reading FDA Commissioner presents vague plan for reorganizing the food side of the agency
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Editor’s note: This was written in response to comments made by FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf in his exclusive interview with Food Safety News Publisher Bill Marler that posted on Feb. 27.
Dear Dr. Califf,
The FDA Foods Program is different. The food system and food safety
Continue Reading The matrix has failed, the system has crashed; FDA needs a new food approach
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After facing months of criticism about its slow response to the infant formula crisis, and the overall troubles facing the food program at the Food and Drug Administration, Commissioner Robert Califf announced earlier this summer that he was ordering a review of the food program by the
Continue Reading FDA hindered food program review before it beganNew FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb claims food and tobacco issues are taking up a majority of his time. Maybe so, but there’s nothing on his public calendar to prove it.
Drug approvals and the regulation of medical devices usually take up more of the FDA commissioners’ time than the food
Continue Reading New commissioner says his time is going to food safety at FDA
