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100 days into the job, FDA head talks to CNN about agency goals— and Coke’s switch to sugar

Commissioner Marty Makary says the FDA will plow ahead with big plans on ultra process foods, dietary guidelines and ...
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Outbreak traced to Fresh & Ready ends; FDA continues investigations into others

The Food and Drug Administration continues to monitor several foodborne illness outbreaks with rising patient counts. The ...

FDA employees say the agency's Elsa generative AI hallucinates entire studies

The federal agency introduced Elsa last month, boasting about the AI tool's ability to increase efficiency at the FDA.

FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the advice of agency staff

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two ...
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How an erosion of staff expertise threatens Marty Makary’s FDA | STAT

STAT spoke with 15 employees across the agency’s drug, device, biologics, and food centers on how the FDA has functioned since the April 1 layoffs, which coincided with the start of FDA ...

FDA looking to make vapes less addictive as agency head claims 85% of those sold are ‘illegal’

“First of all, 85 percent of vaping products sold at your local vape shop are illegal,” he told Rob Schmitt Tonight. “These ...